BMJ  2006;333 (8 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7558.0-b

Have England's road traffic injuries really fallen?

Police statistics show an overall fall in people with road traffic injuries, but this probably represents a fall in completeness of reporting of these injuries, say Gill and colleagues on page 73. They compared England's police statistics with hospital episode statistics on rates of injury and death and their change from 1996 to 2004. According to police statistics, rates of people killed or seriously injured on the roads fell by almost a third in that period. Over the same time, however, hospital admission rates for road traffic injuries were almost unchanged.

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