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Road Safety Congress enlists international expertise

22/02/2010

Police, fire and rescue services and the military are coming together with politicians, highway engineers and driver training bodies this week, under the auspices of the 75th Road Safety Congress.

Organised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), the three-day event aims to gather international knowledge on how to reduce deaths and injuries on the road. A Swedish delegation will introduce the country's road safety policies - which aim to eradicate all road deaths - while a speaker from the Dutch police is to outline the emerging threat from drug-driving.

Meanwhile, the Department for Transport will discuss its vision to establish Britain's roads as the safest in the world, and the Scottish Government will outline its road safety framework for the next decade.

The Driving Standards Agency is also set to report on its ongoing reforms in the training and testing of drivers.

RoSPA head of road safety Kevin Clinton said that when the current road safety strategy and target period finishes later in 2010, it is set to be replaced by a new period which would bring "updated priority areas and new ambitious casualty reduction targets".

However, he added that although the UK is a "world leader" on road safety, it could still learn from international experience.

"Our 75th Road Safety Congress will provide a timely insight into how other countries are addressing the same problem of too many people being killed and injured on the roads," Clinton said.

Last November, the first global ministerial conference on road safety met in Russia to discuss how to tackle the problem of road accidents, which each year kill 1.2 million globally.

It ended with a call for a 'decade of action' on road safety that would begin in 2011. It is hoped that the so-called 'Moscow Declaration' will be formally adopted at next week's global road safety debate, taking place at the United Nations General Assembly.

Speaking at the beginning of the month, Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh, global ambassador for the Make Roads Safe Campaign, said that it was vital that the declaration was approved.

"Millions of lives are at stake, and 2 March can signal a new beginning in the way the world faces up to the challenge of road traffic injuries," she added.

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