Bermuda Police have provide a full statistical picture of traffic collisions last year and the information provides both good and bad news about the Island’s roads. Last year traffic collisions decreased 3.3 percent from 2005.

In 2006 there were 2,839 collisions. In 2005 there were 2,934. And in 2004 there were 3,078. The number appears to be steadily decreasing.

Plus there were 52 fewer collisions with injury last year when compared to 2005, another number on a downtrend since 2004.

However there were slightly more accidents resulting in serious injury.

Despite the generally good news, the number of traffic fatalities for the year was up by one — 14 last year, 13 in 2005.

Most of those fatalities involved motorbikes.

And the new statistics also prove that most accidents in general also involved people on two wheels instead of hour.

One of the more surprising numbers relates to adults between the ages of 41 and 50.

According to Police statistics, that age group was more likely than any other last year to be involved in an traffic collision — even more likely than teenagers and people in their early 20’s.

On a related note, a new American traffic study by Carnegie Mellon University finds that female drivers are a lot safer than male drivers.

Based on miles driven men are 77 percent more likely to die in a US traffic collision than women.