‘Education and enforcement’ key to cutting accidents

12 September 2007

The local authority civil engineer on the Scottish Government’s new expert group on road safety has called for a focus on education and enforcement to drive down fatalities.

Bob McLellan, head of transportation services at Fife council, is among eight ‘leading thinkers on road safety’ appointed to the group by Scottish ministers to advise on a 10-year Scotland-specific road safety strategy.

McLellan told Surveyor, that he and road safety manager, Jane Freer, would bring their knowledge of what worked in Fife, including presentations to schools and mobile safety camera enforcement.

He said: ‘The biggest problem is multiple-fatality incidents involving young people speeding, often also involving alcohol or drugs. ‘We can’t tackle that using engineering measures. We can’t remove every road-side object that such drivers could crash into.’

Dr Steve Lawson, technical director of the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRap), also on the group due to meet next month, said he would be stressing that ‘you can’t ignore the infrastructure’. Even where driver behaviour is the principal factor in a crash, ‘we must make sure road design doesn’t make those accidents unnecessarily severe’.

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