Road Crash - UK - Figures Show Need for New Direction

UK -TNN -June 206: -- Announcement of the 2005 road crash figures show clearly that current road safety policy needs to change, says road safety group the Association of British Drivers... Despite millions spent on speed reduction measures, pedestrian deaths are unchanged from 2004; just as many drivers are dying; and cyclist fatalities increased by 10%. Just 20 fewer people died on the UK's roads... The ABD believes these figures - coming close after Oxford University statistics showing no real reductions in road injury statistics - are profoundly damning of current road safety policy... The ABD believes that by concentrating almost exclusively on external speed controls (bumps, lower limits, cameras) vital aspects of road safety have been missed. The group argues that before we can have safer roads, we need to recognise three key things:
-- That driving and riding safely are extremely complex mental and physical processes;
-- That the massive concentration on external controls has had little impact on safe driving; and
-- That those external controls have very serious side effects...