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Road safety strategy - Road safety is no accident

The Government’s forthcoming road safety strategy is urgently needed to fill the policy vacuum that has hampered the road safety community since the May 2010 General Election, Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, tells LTT

Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, welcomes the upcoming publication of the Government’s new road safety strategy, primarily because it “fills the policy vacuum”
Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, welcomes the upcoming publication of the Government’s new road safety strategy, primarily because it “fills the policy vacuum”
Clinton maintains that speed cameras remain an important tool in the road safety professionals arsenal, despite relentless criticism of their deployment from certain quarters
Clinton maintains that speed cameras remain an important tool in the road safety professionals arsenal, despite relentless criticism of their deployment from certain quarters

 

Noting that the UK’s first road safety strategy preceded the New Labour Government, Clinton observes that: “We have had national strategies and targets in place for almost 25 years and they have been very important.” The fact that, at time of writing, the current Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition government has yet to produce its new road safety strategy, despite the document being planned for publication in April, leaves ROSPA’s road safety head somewhat nervous....

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