Road Safety Strategy

Our UK Labour Government has unveiled a new Road Safety Strategy which aims to cut deaths and serious injuries on Britain’s roads by 65% over the next decade.

After 14 years of Conservative inaction, 22 European countries have made greater progress than the UK in reducing road fatalities, causing Britain to slip from third to fourth in European road safety rankings. Every day, around four people die on Britain’s roads – many in collisions that could have been prevented.

Labour’s Road Safety Strategy marks a decisive break from the Tories’ failure, with a clear plan to tackle the main causes of serious collisions. These include:

• Drink and drug driving

• Speeding

• Mobile phone use

• Unsafe vehicles

• Poor road design

The strategy includes consultations on lowering the drink-drive limit (unchanged since 1967), tougher action on repeat offenders, and the potential use of alcohol interlock devices.

To reduce collisions involving young drivers, the government will consult on a three or six-month minimum learning period, while mandatory eyesight testing for drivers over 70 will also be considered as the population ages.

Further measures include cracking down on illegal “ghost” number plates, uninsured driving and vehicles without a valid MOT.

Communities in Cardiff North will be safer because of the new strategy which is built on the internationally recognised Safer System.

For too long, our communities have been let down by a series of Conservative governments that failed to take road safety seriously. This new strategy is a vital step towards preventing avoidable deaths and injuries.

These changes will save lives, protect vulnerable road users, and ease pressure on the NHS, ending the complacency that defined the Conservatives’ record on road safety.