Why we need to view road safety through a public health lens?

Transport poses a public health risk and the burden is greatest on the poorest in society. There is a strong relationship between social class and the liklihood of road injury. In 1980, the Black Report, published by the government department for health in England, identified a strong socioeconomic gradient between child pedestrian fatalities and social class, with children from the lowest social class being 5 times more likely to die compared to their counterparts in the highest social class...