From the Oxfordshire Council website:
"Accident statistics in Oxfordshire.
Oxfordshire has over 4,200km of roads, approximately 640,000 residents and around 325,000 vehicles registered within the authority's area. Each year on Oxfordshire's roads there are:
an estimated 30,000 accidents of all types (including damage only and injury)
2,000 reported injury accidents
Around 40 deaths, 300 serious injuries and nearly 2,200 slight injuries reported"
The figures above were last updated in July 2010. That would mean 22 Less people have died leading up to March 2011?
It just goes to show that they get the statistics to match the story they want to tell.