Research

The Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy aims at a 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured on Northern Ireland’s roads each year from the 1996 -2000 average of 250 to fewer than 125 by 2012.

If this target is achieved, it is estimated that between 2002 and 2012, the lives of 50 children will have been saved and 700 fewer children will have been seriously injured in road traffic collisions (calculated against the number of road deaths and serious injuries at the 1996–2000 average).

The number of children killed or seriously injured in 2005 fell by 15% compared with 2004 to a level 48% below the 1996-2000 baseline.