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24/10/2008
Safety group RoSPA is arguing for a change in Government policy to bring an hour's extra light to the evenings.
The call comes ahead of the clocks going back an hour to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on Sunday morning. It also marks the 40th anniversary of a trial that saw clocks set to British Summer Time (BST) all year-round.
The group is renewing its call to change UK time as it believes there are safety benefits resulting from lighter conditions on the roads in the evening.
RoSPA claims that there were fewer deaths and serious injuries on the roads during the 1968-1971 trial. It says that an "unwillingness to apply objective thinking" has resulted in more than 5,000 deaths and almost 30,000 serious injuries since this time.
It proposes keeping the clocks at BST from October, then advancing them by an hour in March, with the clocks moving backwards and forwards by an hour in the autumn and spring after the initial adjustment.
RoSPA wants the Government to agree to another three-year trial to test the safety argument.
Chief executive Tom Mullarkey said: "Every day throughout the winter period a person will die unnecessarily because the Government will not hear this argument.
"We need to recognise that our Victorian forbears set up an imperfect system and that it is vital to arrange our daylight usage in a way that suits the way we live in the modern world."
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