Think Bike This is so depressing - another young life gone! A devastated family wondering what might have been …. But also, rural road, inexperienced and young driver, single car crash, carrying peer aged passengers. As you say Think Bike there is a proven intervention which just

4,935 people were killed or sustained serious injury trauma in 2022 from crashes involving drivers aged 17-24. This group is disproportionately impacted by injury trauma. The focus is often on those drivers involved in road crime - for example speeding, accompanied by “it’s

The start of the new Parliament struck me as a good day to send this round again. #VisionZero The visibility of road death and injury trauma, and the impact on families, communities and professionals need to be maintained. #stoproaddeath #GDL

DAVID LAWES Brake, the road safety charity RoadPeace RAC Foundation Edmund King OBE TowardZeroFoundation Road Safety Foundation National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) National Fire Chiefs Council PACTS BBC Breakfast Agreed that risk is an inbuilt aspect of road travel. But, I also believe we can stop road deaths by reducing road danger.

Louise Haigh #VisionZero please. Just think of the money saved if not the lives affected from deaths & injuries 😢.

John Riley Louise Haigh The Department for Transport estimate £43 billion (under estimate I believe) of the cost of crashes on the economy, National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) National Fire Chiefs Council NHS Association of Ambulance Chief Executives etc … And that’s £43 billion every year. #stoproaddeath #VisionZero

During September the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) road safety focus is the #fatal4 and young drivers. A priority for young drivers is getting over the line of passing their test yet this is the beginning of their learning to drive, not the end.

To me this is both confirmatory and scary. Using US data The Economist demonstrate that drivers of the heaviest vehicles kill more people (crashes) than they save (being inside a so called ‘safe’ vehicle). In the UK the size of our vehicles is also increasing exponentially

Neal O'Kelly dr ian greenwood BBC Breakfast Lilian Greenwood Edmund King OBE RAC Foundation Brake, the road safety charity RoadPeace National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) Ruth Purdie OBE David Ward Kate Dearden MP Please consider this perspective youtube.com/watch?v=ra5LK8…

Interesting choice of headline ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ ⁦BBC Yorkshire⁩ - no mention that the driver was “significantly over the drink drive limit and has cocaine in his system” but that ⁦National Highways⁩ needed to make signage improvements. #Fatal5 bbc.com/news/articles/…

An important message here? We must stop the ‘arms race’ of increasingly supersized vehicles. EASST FIA Foundation UN Road Safety

dr ian greenwood BBC News (UK) BBC Yorkshire National Highways So now we really are blaming everyone for others errors. Drunk. And drugs in system and speeding! Surely, as a driver, you read the road and are responsible for actions

One of things I love about many of the folk who work in the stopping road death tribe is a ‘how can I help’ attitude. Case in point on Graduated Driving Licensing: Prof Rebecca Ivers AM - would you present when you’re in London? = of course. Dr Shaun Helman TRL - would you

dr ian greenwood TRL Brake, the road safety charity RoadPeace TowardZeroFoundation RAC Foundation Edmund King OBE UKROEd National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) National Fire Chiefs Council BBC Breakfast PACTS My pleasure Ian. GDL in the UK is long overdue.

dr ian greenwood Prof Rebecca Ivers AM TRL Brake, the road safety charity RoadPeace TowardZeroFoundation RAC Foundation Edmund King OBE UKROEd National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) National Fire Chiefs Council BBC Breakfast PACTS I really enjoyed the event Ian . Thank you for the invite . The UK learn from the Australian experience and act. Simple it will save lives . Young lives .

Great to present at this webinar today on graduated driver licensing in London. I was able to talk through our experiences from Australia and how we bring public health and road safety together to save lives ACRS_RoadSafety Public Health Australia RACSurgeons UN Road Safety Etienne Krug