cra wrote:
But Road Safety touches so many other areas. It needs to fit in with a properly developed, well thought out transport policy.
I don't think I really agree - why shouldn't we be able to do "road safety" independently from any (general) transport policy?
In fact I might build other policy elements around road safety objectives. If one part of transport policy needs to be done first, it's road safety.
cra wrote:
We need to get unsafe and illegal drivers off our roads.
Then by way of a thought experiment: Suppose we have 20 drivers, 10 of whom are unsafe and the other ten are illegal in some technical sense. We have the resources to get 8 of them in the next 12 months. How should we target those resources?
[In my "unsafe group" I would include uninsured drivers because insurance seems to me to be a post-accident safety system.]