Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010

[Sair33]

Shocking how many there are
Makes you think though..... Drive safely people.

http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15975720

[Pilgrim_uk]

Very sobering indeed. Bizarrely quite a lot of the incidents involve OAPs in my area.

[hnosyalnif]

A lot of the incidents in my area are either bikers (the come up from down south to ride the hill roads) or young people (a couple of whom I have known - one of my brothers friends was one). Most of them are caused by excessive speed too (or ice/snow) so most were probably avoidable too which is very sad.

[Hoonigan]

so most were probably avoidable too which is very sad.

All accidents are avoidable, it's just a shame that they aren't all avoided

Not too many in my area, but mainly bikes, as Finlay-backwards mentioned.

[peterb]

Lot of bike related accidents in my area too.

[scaryjim]

Five on my current bike ride to work - four pedestrians and one bike. From the new house next month, also five fatalities, but spread across cars, bikes, pedestrians and a motorcycle. Sobering thought.

Even more sobering is the fact that my 2 - 3 mile bike to work has more fatalities than my old 12.5mile bike ride to church back when I was in my late teens.

[Pob255]

Yep, road deaths it a fairly big killer in this country, I'm amazed so few people seem to realise.

Around 50 people killed per day on average, it also puts into proportion thing like the recent "disaster" of the Costa Concordia.

With just 13 confirmed dead and 20 still missing, so probable 33 in total, so if that is a "disaster" why do we let it happen every day?
Why haven't we banned all motor vehicles?

I'm not suggesting we should far from it, we've become far too blasé and desensitised to reality and life.
50 people killed per day on our roads or 33 in a shipwreck is actually quite a low number, think how many people use our roads each day?
How many ship voyages don't end with the ship sinking?

It's the same when we look at recent wars, iraq (03-09 total 179 (0.08per day or less than 4 days of road deaths for the total war) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10637526 ) & afghanistan (01-10 total 395 (0.12per day or less than 8 days of road deaths for the total) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10629358 )
That's right, in 12 days we've killed more people on our roads in our daily lives than we've lost soldiers in two wars. actually I could say "you've" because I don't drive. but it's "we've" as a collective society.
Compared to historical wars these numbers are tiny but we are just too divorced from death and reality in our daily lives to grasp it.

@Hoonigan, "All accidents are avoidable" sorry but by known physics that statement is wrong, well unless the universe is truly infinite then it's possible but at the same time not possible within our current lives, unless you've got some secrete reality bending powers that can negate probability.