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6. Casualties by Type of Road ( Table 6)
6.1 In 2006, "non built-up" roads ( see the definition in section 10.3) accounted for about two-fifths of the total number of reported casualties (42%: 7,192 out of 17,077). However, perhaps because average speeds are higher on non built-up roads than elsewhere, they accounted for almost three quarters of those killed (73%: 230 out of 314) and for over half of the total number of killed and seriously injured combined (52%: 1,498 out of 2,908).
6.2 Compared with the 1994-98 average, the fall in the reported total number of casualties has been greater for "built-up" roads (27%) than for non built-up roads (19%). There were similar differences for the numbers killed (down by 27% for built-up roads compared with 13% for non built-up) and the numbers killed or seriously injured (falls of 43% and 37%).
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