Working for change » Tackling bad driving
Tackling bad driving
The problem
- Driving licence is seen as a right, not a privilege that must be earned and maintained.
- Risk taking and law breaking on the road is not seen as ‘real crime’.
- Traffic law enforcement is a low priority for the Home Office and senior police.
- There is limited enforcement and low penalties for life threatening behaviour, such as using a mobile phone whilst driving.
- Soft popular measures are not held to the same standard of evaluation/evidence as hard enforcement and engineering measures.
What RoadPeace wants
- Greater priority to be given to reducing the threat from illegal drivers.
- Evidence based policy and more trials of such measures as vehicle speed limiters and average speed cameras.
- Police/Community safety and anti-social behaviour consultations to include bad driving.
- Greater priority given to taking bad drivers off the road.
What RoadPeace is doing about it
- Working to highlight the burden of speed, with its impact on the quality of life and the environment, as well as the quantity of death and injury.
- Produce briefings for our members and partners on key issues such as drink driving, drug driving, mobile menaces, etc.
- Responding to consultations, including testifying to the North Review
- Updating a systematic review of red light cameras for the Cochrane Collaboration.
