Avon Fire & Rescue Service attended nearly 800 road traffic
collisions during 2009/2010 rescuing over 100 casualties and in
certain cases providing emergency first aid and trauma care.
Road traffic collisions cause immense human suffering.
Every day six people are killed on Britain's roads. In 2009
that amounted to 2,222 deaths of which 81 included children.
Around a further 24,690 were seriously injured (2,590 were
children) and 195,000 were slightly injured.
This means that on 2,222 occasions in one year a family was told
that one of their closest relatives had been killed, suddenly and
without warning. The immediate emotional impact, the long term
trauma and the sense of loss that the family experiences is
incomprehensible.