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How Britain Built Some of the World's Safest Roads
mercredi 10 septembre 2025, 17:33 , par Slashdot
![]() The UK now ranks among the world's safest countries for road travel at 1.9 deaths per 100,000 people. Key interventions included mandatory breathalyzer tests in 1967 that reduced drunk-driving deaths by 82%, the introduction of motorways beginning in 1958, conversion to roundabouts that cut fatal accidents by two-thirds, and 20-mph speed zones around schools. If global road death rates matched Britain's current levels, approximately one million lives would be saved annually from the current 1.2 million road deaths worldwide. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/1533256/how-britain-built-some-of-the-worlds-safest-roads?u...
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