In 2009 Southwark wasted £119M – £47M as a consequence of human injury from roads crashes and £72M from lack of excercise. These are collosal sums:
| Southwark’s Annual Casualty Costs | |||||||
| 2009 Casualties | Cost/casualty | Human Costs | Lost output | Medical & ambulance | Total Costs | ||
| Fatal | 6 | £ 1,683,810.0 | £ 6,623,880 | £ 3,473,040 | £ 5,940 | £ 10,102,860 | |
| Serious | 121 | £ 189,210.0 | £ 18,561,400 | £ 2,698,300 | £ 1,634,710 | £ 22,894,410 | |
| Slight | 981 | £ 14,590.0 | £ 11,016,630 | £ 2,315,160 | £ 981,000 | £ 14,312,790 | |
| Southwark’s costs | £ 36,201,910 | £ 8,486,500 | £ 2,621,650 | £ 47,310,060 | |||
| Southwark’s Annual Physical Inactivity Costs | Total Physical Inactivity costs | Selected physical inactivity costs (1998 Prices!) |
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| Southwark’s population: | 305,000 | ||||||
| English Population: | 51,446,000 | (ONS 2008 estimate) | (2009 price) | NHS costs | Lost output due to sickness | Lost output due to premature death | |
| DfT estimated cost of physical inactivity for 81% of English population | £ 9,800,000,000 | £ 1,780,000,000 | £ 5,420,000,000 | £ 1,040,000,000 | |||
| Southwark’s costs | £ 71,728,093 | £ 13,028,164 | £ 39,670,027 | £ 7,611,961 | |||
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/307739/wider-costs-transport.pdf
In Sweden they are aiming for zero road dead or permanent injury casaulties. In Southwark we’re aiming for…..modal shift, 20mph where its easy and cheap. We seriously ALL need to up our game if were to get many more people using active forms of transport such as cycling and walking.