North road safety efforts 'save 2,000 lives in five years'

More than 2,000 people have been saved from death or serious injury because of a major improvement in road safety in the North over the last five years, it was revealed today.

A 10-year target set in 2002 to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on the roads by a third – 580 people a year – has been met five years early.