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National Deer-Vehicle Collisions Project

www.deercollisions.co.uk

A Project administered by The Deer Initiative

Did you know?

  • that the toll of deer involved annually in traffic collisions in the UK is estimated to lie between 42,000 to 74,000
  • such deer related RTAs result in several hundred human injuries and several human fatalities each year.
  • six main species of deer live wild in Britain with a combined population of over 1.5 million head .
* NEW *
Sept. 2009 Highways Agency and Deer Initiative Launch "DeerAware" Driver Information Programme (press release)
April 2009: With increase of wild boar in the countryside, traffic incidents with boar can now also be logged here.
Jul'08: UK DVC Project to Continue

(updated 16 / 01 / 2010)

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