Global NCAP’s Post

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Unfortunately, over the last decade or more, the UKCS Rd. safety performance has been absolutely dismal. We have flat lined. Progress has halted. We now seem to tolerate around 30,000 deaths and serious injuries every year. That's like a small, medium sized town being devastated by Rd. crashes. So actually there are great opportunities for a new government to really make some progress. The priority areas, there's great progress that we made on vehicle safety. There are a raft of new technologies like autonomous emergency braking, intelligence, speed assistance. At a stroke of a pen, a new Secretary of State can. Adapt, adopt those technologies which we we very much hope there's action that can be taken to protect young drivers who remain amongst the most vulnerable in our community. And above all, there needs to be a strategy. A red safety strategy has been missing and a heart of that must be evidence based policy making. We've got to get away from populist rhetoric about a so-called war on motorists and get back to the real job of the Department of Transport which is to make our roads safe.