Veterans ‘more likely to be hurt in road crashes’

Military veterans are more likelytobeinjuredinaroad traffic accident than people who have never been in the military, according to a new study.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow looked at 57,000 veterans in Scotland who were born between 1945 and 1985.

The veterans had a wide range of experience and lengths of service in the armed forces over a 50-year period.

They found that the risk of being injured in a traffic accident was highest in people with the shortest service, including those who had never been deployed.

The highest risk was in people in their 30s, irrespective of the time since they had left service, and there was no evidence that the period immediately following discharge was especially risky.