Road tragedies should not be accepted as an 'inevitable' part of life, says a councillor who has called for 'serious and sustained' efforts to tackle the problem.
Road tragedies should not be accepted as an "inevitable" part of life, says a councillor who has called for "serious and sustained" efforts to tackle the problem.Figures show that 121 people were killed or injured on Shropshire's roads last year, and several more people have died in traffic collisions this year.
In it, he discusses the"Vision Zero Safe System", saying:"Traditional approaches to road safety assume that people can be taught, persuaded or compelled to behave safely. A Safe System approach is different. It accepts that while road-users should behave safely and legally, people do sometimes make mistakes, and that some mistakes lead to crashes.
Councillor Wilson cites work that has gone on in Sweden and Norway to successfully reduce the number of road deaths by adopting Vision Zero, and pointed out that a number of UK councils have set targets of zero road deaths by a certain date - with London aiming to achieve it by 2041. The four key principles of the Vision Zero Safe System are that possibility for mistakes should be taken into account, human life and health should be given the highest priority, responsibility needs to be taken and danger reduction measures taken for those whose transport creates the highest risk, and that active travel such as cycling and walking should be enabled.
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