The Preston Soccer Centre has teamed up with Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety. Each month we will publish information provided by the partnership, please check back and help make our roads a more safer place!

This month, Key Facts about road safety:

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Some Key Facts

Driving too fast was the main cause of 1,200 deaths and more than 20,000 serious injuries on built up roads in the UK last year. Statistics show the main cause of road crashes is the combination of inappropriate or excessive speed with some form of human error. Speeding is bad driving. Government research shows:

Approximately 1 in 3 deaths is speed related.

7 out of 10 drivers regularly break the speed limit - usually by about 5mph.
An average family car travelling at 35mph will need an extra 21 feet (6.4 metres) to stop than one travelling at 30mph.
If you hit a cyclist or pedestrian at 35mph the force of the impact increases by more than a third than at 30mph.
Reducing your speed by an average of 1mph will cut accident frequency by 5 per cent.
On urban roads 76 per cent of cars will exceed the speed limit if the road is clear.
It is not safer to drive faster at night. Casualty rates are double that during daylight hours due to the higher speeds because of less traffic, higher alcohol consumption, tiredness and darkness.

Next Month, Stopping Distances