Posted By steven bentham I might be out of date but I thought the UK fatal RTA was in the region of 5,000 per year.

Posted By Lucy K Rackliff It's actually about 3300 fatalities, approx 40, 000 killed & seriously injured, & anybody's guess how many accidents in total! As well as the link posted by a previous respondent you'll find info at www.dft.gov.uk. As I'm sure you know there's stuff about occupational road risk on the HSE website, & there are also a number of charities & professional organisations in this field (try brake.org.uk or airso.org.uk, for example). There's also a conference coming up on best practice in fleet safety (university of Huddersfield, around July time, I think). Brake also does free presentations to fleet operators/drivers, so maybe you could contact them for that too. (I wouldn't use it instead of doing something yourself, for reasons that I don't really want to go into, but it's quite good for reinforcing the message). If you need anything else shout up - this is my field (can you tell???)

Posted By Alan Haynes How does rail safety compare to road safety? Travelling by train is nine times safer than travelling by car, according to 2003 statistics published by the Department for Transport. The "relative fatality risk" for different modes of transport - with zero signifying no risk - is worked out according to the number of deaths compared to the number of people using each mode. Motorcyclists are at the greatest risk (with a factor of 358), followed by pedestrians (143) and cyclists (95). Car travel has a risk factor of nine, while rail travel has a risk factor of one.