Astonishingly, our chances of being killed on the roads have stayed the same for half a century-it is almost as though we have decided to tolerate 6,000 dead each year.
Why do we so meekly assume that the carnage is inevitable when patently it is not?
In a specially extended film report, Man Alive hears from doctors, police and accident investigation teams who are angry and bewildered that so little is done to stop the killing.
Producers RITCHIE COGAN and NICK ROSS
Editor TIM SLESSOR