Impacts of road accidents

Human casualties and fatalities. Life changing events to those suffering injury.

High use of A and E departments and hospital costs.

Use of police time in the investigations.

Court times for those that have to attend as well as costs to the establishment.

High insurance cost to cover damage/fatality awards.

Infrastructure closures at time of incident and post incident for recover and investigation.

Hold ups of traffic flow to divert around accident sites.

Cost to industry for road hold ups/ closures.