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Nobody seems to see the obvious contradiction between casualty reduction and the government's other goal, promoting active travel.
Speed cameras have been deliberately placed after accidents rates have spiked, and the expected casualty reduction is then wrongly attributed to speed cameras.
Why can't the DfT conduct a British Road Safety survey which would ask similar questions, widening the focus towards danger reduction and risk perception rather than the narrow measure of casualty reduction?
The relentless focus on casualty reduction has led to a kind of tunnel vision which increasingly has no relevance as to whether roads are really safe for non-motorists.
Campaigners who want our district to be a safe place to cycle are battling not just against local resistance; we're finding that the national ideology of road safety, based exclusively on casualty reduction, isn't much help.
The West Midlands Casualty Reduction Scheme, which manages the cameras, was funded by seven local authorities in the West Midlands.
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Traffic calming and 20mph zones have spread - Hull has more than 100 such zones and has impressive casualty reductions as a result, with a waiting list for more.
This study compared road safety and related factors in the U.S. with those in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands (which are among the best-performing countries), in order to identify actions most likely to produce casualty reductions in the U.S. The reviewed topics were basic country statistics, road fatalities and various fatality rates, and selected road-safety issues.
Five indices of casualty and vulnerability reduction, possibility of localization of sensor technology, performance costs, performance speed and maintenance were considered and using pairwise comparison method final weight of indices.
It states that it is difficult to prove that cycling infrastructure has reduced casualty numbers, and traffic reduction, speed reduction and junction treatment should be considered before installing cycle lanes.
But government backing for peaceful nuclear operations later withered, a casualty of deficit-reduction under the past two Liberal governments and the Conservatives' preference for smaller government.
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