Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is it time for us to move towards the Swedish vision zero approach where it is taken for granted that, unfortunately, some drivers will make mistakes? That is particularly the case at higher speeds and responsibility for the speed limits has to go back to the national authorities and the car manufacturers. We have had a situation where it has been three decades since we made our own cars and, therefore, we are relying on manufacturers abroad, as far away as Japan and so on, to make the vehicles. Is it time that we required them, as Volvo seems to be doing in Sweden, to go down the road of having limiters installed in cars? They allow for mistakes to be made at reasonable speeds. In other jurisdictions they have special limits for adverse weather conditions, night driving and so on. Is it not time for us to review the 2004 Act and examine the other slight amendments we have made and conduct a fundamental review to eradicate the terrible casualties we still experience?

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