Government 'must introduce a road safety plan'

The government needs to implement a road safety strategy to build on the reduction in accident rates that has been seen in previous years, one motoring expert has argued.

Director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists Neil Greig said that while the country's roads "have never been safer", there is a need for the coalition to set out clear aims for making further improvements.

"The key issue at this very moment is we don't actually have a road safety strategy from the government," he remarked, adding there is a "slight lack of direction" in this area at present.

Mr Greig noted in the past, there has been a ten-year strategy from the ruling political party that outlined targets, something that has not yet been put in place, however he stated a road safety initiative is likely to be introduced "in the next few weeks".

According to research from insurance firm Admiral, around 25 per cent of all road accidents involve collisions from behind, with 405,000 such incidents occurring every year.
 

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