Seanad debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2003

The strategy recognised that changes in behaviour required all those elements to be addressed. For nearly the entire length of the strategy – almost five years – the absence of a concerted approach on all elements was shown by the very modest returns in terms of reductions in road deaths and injuries. The strategy had set out what many thought was a very modest target for the reduction of deaths and injuries of only 20%, which would still have left us way above the levels of deaths and injuries of our closest neighbour, the United Kingdom. However, as we approached the very last quarter of the five year period, it was clear that even that modest target would not be achieved as far as road deaths were concerned. We now have the proof of the reason that was so: the lack of a serious approach to enforcement, the fourth crucial element in the strategy.

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