Who is successful in reducing KSI's, and what do they do that Cumbria do not?
This report is from the BBC, February 2005:
BBC Lincolnshire wrote:
Sharp fall in county road deaths
Road safety experts say the number of road accidents in Lincolnshire has dropped since the introduction of a rural safe-driving campaign.
The Red Route scheme started 18 months ago with signs at 12 well-known accident hotspots in the county.
The scheme has resulted in a 25% reduction in the number of serious accidents on county roads.
The police say the new campaign seeks to remind motorists to drive carefully on rural roads.
Richard Greener, Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership development manager, said: "Rural roads are a particular cause for concern in this county.
"Eighty-eight people were killed and 274 were seriously injured on such roads in Lincolnshire last year."
However, this quote from November 2004 paints a slightly different picture:
BBC Lincolnshire wrote:
Fatalities plunge on county roads
The number of people killed on roads in Lincolnshire has dropped steeply so far this year compared with 2003.
Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership said 66 people died in accidents between January and November in 2004 compared with 94 in the previous year.
It follows a number of campaigns across the county aimed at cutting the number of road deaths.
The Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership has warned the figures are still too high.
Spokesman Steve Batchelor said: "We had a decrease when the partnership started in the first year and I think everybody was quick to believe we'd fixed the problem and everything is improving.
"I would tend to think you have to have several years of this reduction occurring before you can say: 'Yes, we are making this big difference and things are improving'."
Lincolnshire Police have previously said the three most consistent factors in road fatalities in the county are excessive speed, lack of seat belts and unroadworthy cars.
They said most of the road fatalities in the county were local people.
It seems Lincolnshire are not SO different from CSCP - the fatals rose from 64 to 83 in the last months of the year, so the drastic drop in fatals was suddenly not so drastic!
However their spokesman is at least keen to say that they want several years of figures before they claim success.
The high number of fatals compared to Cumbria, when they have no major motorways worries me - any ideas?