DfT issues road safety strateg
The Department for Transport (DfT) believes its Strategic
Framework for Road Safety, published last week, will continue
the reduction in deaths and injuries on the roads seen in recent
years. The department's plans include:
- increasing the range and use of educational courses that can be
offered instead of fixed penalty notices.
- requiring more disqualified drivers to take a test before
regaining their licence.
- introducing a fixed penalty offence for careless driving.
- increasing the level of fixed penalty notices for traffic
offences to bring the £60 charge into line with other fixed penalty
notices, and considering increasing the fixed penalty notice charge
for uninsured driving.
- making full use of existing powers to seize vehicles.
- removing the option for drivers who fail an evidential breath
test by 40% or less to request a blood or urine test.
The government also said it was considering raising the motorway
speed limit to 80mph.
"The introduction of new fixed penalty notices for careless driving
will enable the police to more easily target those dangerous
drivers who deliberately tail-gate, undertake or cut other
motorists up," said BVRLA chief executive John Lewis. "It is better
that enforcement is focused in this area rather than at motorists
who may just creep a couple of mph over the speed limit but not
cause any danger."
The BVRLA wants the government to allocate sufficient resources to
the police to enforce the law - and for enforcement to be
consistent across the UK.
The strategic framework can be read
here.
Source: BVRLA News (http://www.bvrla.co.uk/News/BVRLA_News.aspx
Edition: April/ May 2011) 16/05/11
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