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Road Safety - Updating the Legal Component
David Jamieson MPParliamentary Under Secretary of State
David Jamieson MPParliamentary Under Secretary of State
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The Road Safety Challenge
• Sustaining UK’s very good road safety record
• 10 people still die on our roads each day
• Still represents a significant economic, social and emotional cost to society
• Sustaining UK’s very good road safety record
• 10 people still die on our roads each day
• Still represents a significant economic, social and emotional cost to society
UK
Norway
Sweden
J apan
Germany
Australia
Canada
I taly
France
USA
Portugal
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Road deaths per 100,000 of populationSource: International Road Traffic and accident Database
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10 Year Plan
• Strategy sets out the framework for delivering further improvements in road safety over the next decade
• Needs to evolve continuously as new evidence and ideas emerge
• Legislation is an essential component in both existing commitments and future developments
• Strategy sets out the framework for delivering further improvements in road safety over the next decade
• Needs to evolve continuously as new evidence and ideas emerge
• Legislation is an essential component in both existing commitments and future developments
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Killed or seriously injured casualties : Rolling four quarter totals
Progress Against Targets
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Legislative Component - Key Areas
•Local Road Safety
•Drink Driving
•Speeding
•Bad Driving
•Driving Standards
•Fatigue
•Support for Enforcement
This package of measures addresses those areas of the strategy that require primary legislation:
This package of measures addresses those areas of the strategy that require primary legislation:
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Local Road Safety
• Demonstration projects have proved successful: reducing casualties, providing approaches and lessons that can be applied elsewhere
• Propose clear and specific power to fund full range of potential innovative road safety projects
• This will secure funding for future innovative projects such as Dealing with Disadvantage and Gloucester Safer City and allow their success to be replicated and further developed
• Demonstration projects have proved successful: reducing casualties, providing approaches and lessons that can be applied elsewhere
• Propose clear and specific power to fund full range of potential innovative road safety projects
• This will secure funding for future innovative projects such as Dealing with Disadvantage and Gloucester Safer City and allow their success to be replicated and further developed
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Drink Driving
Drink driving now accounts for a sixth of all fatalities
• Propose to introduce: - evidential roadside breathtesting, - retesting for serious and repeat offenders- better rehabilitation
• Will:- allow more efficient policing- further discourage recidivism- offer courts effective alternatives to disqualification- tighten loopholes in legislation whilst - complement successful publicity campaigns
Drink driving now accounts for a sixth of all fatalities
• Propose to introduce: - evidential roadside breathtesting, - retesting for serious and repeat offenders- better rehabilitation
• Will:- allow more efficient policing- further discourage recidivism- offer courts effective alternatives to disqualification- tighten loopholes in legislation whilst - complement successful publicity campaigns
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Speeding
Speeding is a factor in a significant proportion of collisions
• Proposal: - create variable fixed penalties in range of 2-6 points- speed rehabilitation courses- increase penalty for not identifying driver and - ban speed camera jammers and detectors
• Will support and promote successful camera strategy by:- relating the severity of the offence to the punishment- prevent evasion of cameras - remove incentive to not identifying driver
Speeding is a factor in a significant proportion of collisions
• Proposal: - create variable fixed penalties in range of 2-6 points- speed rehabilitation courses- increase penalty for not identifying driver and - ban speed camera jammers and detectors
• Will support and promote successful camera strategy by:- relating the severity of the offence to the punishment- prevent evasion of cameras - remove incentive to not identifying driver
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Bad Driving
Driver error a major contributory factor in 95% of all collisions
• Propose to offer retraining for bad drivers and increase maximum penalties for: - careless driving (to £5000)- mobile phone offences ( to 3 penalty points) - using vehicle in a dangerous condition (mandatory disqualification for 2nd offence)
• This will discourage poor attitudes and improve driver behaviour through retraining and severer penalties
Driver error a major contributory factor in 95% of all collisions
• Propose to offer retraining for bad drivers and increase maximum penalties for: - careless driving (to £5000)- mobile phone offences ( to 3 penalty points) - using vehicle in a dangerous condition (mandatory disqualification for 2nd offence)
• This will discourage poor attitudes and improve driver behaviour through retraining and severer penalties
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Driving Standards
Younger drivers are 6% of all drivers / 12% of injury collisions
• Propose to:- modernise driving instruction - extend regulation to all sectors- publish performance data of driving instructors
• Will:- create higher standards of professional instructor- improve educational environment - empower consumer - reward better instructors
Younger drivers are 6% of all drivers / 12% of injury collisions
• Propose to:- modernise driving instruction - extend regulation to all sectors- publish performance data of driving instructors
• Will:- create higher standards of professional instructor- improve educational environment - empower consumer - reward better instructors
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Fatigue
Research has suggested that up to 10% of collisions are sleep related
• Proposal:- trial of motorway rest areas- clarify & improve powers to enforce EU drivers’ hours rules
• Will:- counteract commercial incentive to drive whilst tired - reduce risk of collisions involving larger vehicles- motorway rest areas will encourage people to take a break- provide genuine alternative to motorway service areas
Research has suggested that up to 10% of collisions are sleep related
• Proposal:- trial of motorway rest areas- clarify & improve powers to enforce EU drivers’ hours rules
• Will:- counteract commercial incentive to drive whilst tired - reduce risk of collisions involving larger vehicles- motorway rest areas will encourage people to take a break- provide genuine alternative to motorway service areas
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Support for Enforcement - Licensing
Security of driving licence and vehicle number plate essential to enforcement
• Propose: - to extend regulation of number plate supply to Scot & NI- seizure of fraudulent driving licences by DSA staff- more secure photocard- allow international exchange of DVLA data
• Will: - prevent criminals using fake number plates - hinder export of stolen vehicles- remove stolen & fraudulent driving licences from circulation - further increase the security of the driving licence
Security of driving licence and vehicle number plate essential to enforcement
• Propose: - to extend regulation of number plate supply to Scot & NI- seizure of fraudulent driving licences by DSA staff- more secure photocard- allow international exchange of DVLA data
• Will: - prevent criminals using fake number plates - hinder export of stolen vehicles- remove stolen & fraudulent driving licences from circulation - further increase the security of the driving licence
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(Support for Enforcement cont.) Insurance and FraudUninsured drivers are 6-9 times more likely to have a collision,
“clocking” fraud costs approximately £100m per annum and prevents safety problems from being detected
• Propose to: - require the mandatory recording of vehicle mileage - derive database of “at risk” vehicles from insurance records
• Will enable police to target uninsured drivers using successful ANPR technology; and prevent fraud & ensure mileage gives true indication of vehicle condition
Uninsured drivers are 6-9 times more likely to have a collision, “clocking” fraud costs approximately £100m per annum and prevents safety problems from being detected
• Propose to: - require the mandatory recording of vehicle mileage - derive database of “at risk” vehicles from insurance records
• Will enable police to target uninsured drivers using successful ANPR technology; and prevent fraud & ensure mileage gives true indication of vehicle condition
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(Support for Enforcement cont.) Fixed Penalties for Non-GB Licences
• We are unable to give foreign (non-GB licence holders) and unlicensed motorists fixed penalties
• Propose to take power to issue fixed penalties for road traffic offences to non-GB licence holders
• This will allow enforcement agents to issue fixed penalties to non-GB licence holders.
• We are unable to give foreign (non-GB licence holders) and unlicensed motorists fixed penalties
• Propose to take power to issue fixed penalties for road traffic offences to non-GB licence holders
• This will allow enforcement agents to issue fixed penalties to non-GB licence holders.
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Other Measures
• Radioactive material transport inspectors require parity of power to question suspects as Health & Safety Executive staff to ensure the safe transport of these materials
• Alternative fuel conversions (LPG etc.) are safe and deliver environmental benefits only if properly converted, we wish to introduce a regime to regulate conversion standards
• Propose to remove a loophole regarding the definition of a private hire vehicle to ensure that all such vehicles in London are subject to a licensing regime
• Radioactive material transport inspectors require parity of power to question suspects as Health & Safety Executive staff to ensure the safe transport of these materials
• Alternative fuel conversions (LPG etc.) are safe and deliver environmental benefits only if properly converted, we wish to introduce a regime to regulate conversion standards
• Propose to remove a loophole regarding the definition of a private hire vehicle to ensure that all such vehicles in London are subject to a licensing regime
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Next Steps
• These primary legislative measures will form basis of further action to take strategy forward in some areas
• Road Safety is about more than legislation and work will continue in many other areas:- publicity- education- work with schools- research- infrastructure
• These primary legislative measures will form basis of further action to take strategy forward in some areas
• Road Safety is about more than legislation and work will continue in many other areas:- publicity- education- work with schools- research- infrastructure