What we need to know about the Paralympics is what proportion of the contestants disabilities are caused by road deaths and injuries. Road crashes are the leading killer of people aged 15 to 29 years. And no mention of that is made in Valery Yules article and I for one would like to know is ball park figures for the various

According to the World Health Organisation about 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes worldwide. Nearly half of them are vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. These road crashes caused between 20 and 50 million non fatal injuries in in 2010. By 2020 it is estimated that there will 1.9 million Road deaths and between 30 million and 80 million non fatal road crashes.

The world's fleet of passenger cars peaked at 1 billion in 2010  and killed  most of the 1.3 million people killed on the roads that year the worlds cars sales and The World Health Organization has stated that that road safety generally and bicycle safety in particular need to given priority in all countries. Because by 2020 there will be 1.4 million cars on the worlds roads by the.

I think Valerie is coping with a can of worms and I do agree that “Industries are developing
to help those to compete in sport” and to provide active transport for both young and the elderly. I am 76 with two artificial hips, a plated tibia and heart pacemaker, so I was shouting with joy seeing what the sprinters on the track where doing with the prothetic/orthopaedic designers, had provided for the runners.
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As a matter of interest Pest, suicide has taken over from transport accidents as the leading cause of death amongst young people in Australia.........

"Suicide is the leading cause of death for young
people in Australia aged 15–24 years.¹ In
previous years, transport accidents was the
leading cause of death." (2011 statistics)

http://www.communities.wa.gov.au/youth/publications/documents/y033-2011%20help%20sheet7_suicide.pdf

I'm not sure how much funding is thrown at youth suicide compared to the prevention of transport accident deaths, but I do know it's miniscule by comparison, however I will admit that the money spent on prevention of transport accident deaths has probably done a lot to lessen the toll.
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