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Local MP Steve Ladyman congratulated on record breaking road safety figures

Local MP congratulated on record breaking road safety figures

Stephen Ladyman, the MP for South Thanet, has been congratulated by Minister of Transport Jim Fitzpatrick for record road safety figures achieved when he was Minister of State for Transport.

The 2007 figures, published this week, show that road deaths fell below 3000 in Great Britain for the first time ever in 2007 and child casualties also fell by 7%. The figures were achieved at a time when Stephen Ladyman was the Minister for Road Safety and had invested a great deal of personal effort in the road safety campaign.

"I am aware that you were Road safety Minister at the time and would like to congratulate on all your hard work that contributed to these results" wrote Mr Fitzpatrick in a personal letter to Dr.Ladyman, announcing the record figures.

"I am delighted and very proud of these figures. Perhaps my appearing on Top Gear worked after all!" said Dr Ladyman. "If just a few lives were saved by the campaigns I initiated then it was all worth while."

Notes to editors:

Personal road injury fatal accidents fell 7% in 2007 to 2,943. The number of child casualties also fell 7% and the number of child deaths fell 28% to 121.