Provisional figures for 2008 released by Safer Roads for Cumbria revealed that the county had the lowest road fatality figure for many years with serious injury casualties also recording a reduction.
Last year saw 30 fatalities on Cumbria's roads compared to 45 fatalities in 2007 and 59 in 2006. In common with previous years the majority of those dying were local. Twenty five of those who died were county residents compared to five from outside Cumbria. 2008 also saw 238 serious injury casualties compared with 274 the previous year. Slight injuries came in at 1792 compared to 2099 for 2007.
Safer Roads for Cumbria is experimenting with a micro-blogging service on the Internet to get its messages over to key target audiences. The service called Twitter allows short SMS style messages to be posted on the Internet and be picked up through web browsers and mobile phones.