Look Out For New Legislation
Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011
by Laura Brown
OSE European
The department of transport has recently published a new report documenting road safety improvement for the UK;
The expert below identifies the key themes for Road Safety:
- Better education and training for Children and learner and inexperienced drivers.
- Making it easier for road users to do the right thing and go with the grain of human behavior
- Remedial Education for those who make mistakes and for low level offences where this is more effective than financial penalties and penalty points.
- Tougher Enforcement for the small minority of motorists who deliberately choose to drive carelessly
- Extending this approach to cover all dangerous and careless offences, not just focusing in speeding
- Taking action based upon cost benefit analysis, including assessing the impact on business.
- More local and community decision making from decentralization and providing local information to citizens to enable them to challenge priorities.
- Supporting and Building capability by working with the road safety community on better tools to support road safety professionals.
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