Twenty per cent of child deaths in England are caused by road injuries and about 13,000 fewer children a year would be killed or injured if a traffic speed limit of 20 miles per hour in residential areas was introduced, says the Health Development Agency, following research which found that children from poorer backgrounds are at a higher risk of accidental death and injury. HDA chief executive Paul Streets said, 'The difference in road injury rates between poor and rich children is a stark and unacceptable example of health inequality.' The HDA is to work with local authorities to implement the lower speed limit in disadvantaged areas.
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