Twenty die on Cumbria's roads despite fall in traffic during pandemic
Twenty people died on Cumbria’s roads and hundreds were seriously injured in road traffic accidents last year, despite traffic falling during the coronavirus pandemic. With reduced road usage, fatal and serious road traffic accidents dropped by more than a fifth across the country but 20 people still lost their lives due to collisions around the county in 2020, figures for Cumbria Constabulary show. However, less traffic contributed to a 14 per cent decline in the number of people killed or seriously hurt locally and an overall drop of 29 per cent in the total number of casualties, fr...