On Saturday, 21 November 2015 10:22:03 UTC, John Smith wrote:


In 2004, 145 people were killed in 23,714 hit-and-run incidents. There
were 119 deaths in 18,357 such crashes in 1997 when Labour came to
power. This is a 22 per cent increase in deaths and a 30 per cent rise
in the number of hit-and-run crashes...'

Maybe they were all swerving out of the way of imaginary cyclists?

http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Van-d...l/story.html#1