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This map plots every road death in Great Britain from 1999-2008 - use it to search for accidents by postcode or police authority.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS

The air ambulance service flies 19,000 missions a year, many of them to serious road crashes

Find out when most fatal accidents happen

The day my partner died in a road crash

Seventeen year old Nick had everything going for him

CRASH: FACTS

2,538 people died and nearly 250,000 were injured on roads in Great Britain in 2008

Road crashes are the largest single cause of death for people between ages 5 and 35

Travelling by road far deadlier than going by train, plane or boat

But 1,000 fewer deaths per year than in 1999 due to a range of factors

ANATOMY OF A ROAD CRASH

CRASH 2011