In message , Robin writes
That's the whole problem you don't seem to get. A lot less than £6.7m
could be spent in saving one person in other fields. Town bypasses
could be just one. I'm sure others here will come up with other
suggestions.

The DfT "value of a life" figure is around £m2 so it's easy peasey:
light more roads/junctions. (DfT were always the government leaders on
how to deal with death and injury in cost-benefit analyses because they
have to do them so often for road schemes, speed limits etc)
Snip
Story was that Ford looked at the frequency of deaths with the Pinto
caused by rear end shunts splitting the petrol tank and decided it was
cheaper to carry on paying out compensation than rectify the problem.
Now that is cost-benefit analysis!!
--
hugh