Department for Transport reveal figures on road accidents

Boys are twice as likely to be killed on the roads as girls, according to Department for Transport figures showing that 64 per cent of the under-16s killed or seriously injured on the roads in 2006 were male. It is suggested that the rate is higher for boys because they spend more time outside unsupervised and engaged in riskier behaviour. But the study did find that overall child road deaths and serious injuries had fallen by 52 per cent in the past ten years.