Road Safety Plan a Shambles
Eddy Shaw, chief executive of the National Safety Council was interviewed on T.V last night when he talked about discussions he had been engaged in at Leinster House. He highlighted that probably 370 people would lose their lives on the roads by the end of the year.
An acceptable level of fatalities, although none is acceptable, would be 240 per annum and this level would put us in an improved performance position in the European scheme of things.
He mentioned that there was a great willingness to work to achieve a major reduction in road accident levels but that there seemed to be poor co-ordination between all the various Departments.
The cost of our increasing level of Road Fatalities and Injuries is not just a Department of Transport issue but involves the Department of Health, The Department of Finance and those agencies involved in our roads infrastructure.
In other words virtually every Government Department has a role to play in co-ordinating the response needed to bring down the relentless carnage.
The fact that the Driving Test Centres can just close up while talks go on about new procedures, emphasises that the whole Learner Driver Training and monitoring issue is really not getting the attention it deserves.
If we had a fully operational system of Registration and Monitoring of Driving Schools and their Instructors, and mandatory Tuition from such accredited Schools, then the standard of young drivers pouring onto the Irish roads would undoubtedly be much better than it is currently.
The death toll from accidents involving our current crop of Learner Drivers would definitely be substantially reduced. There are far too many incapable and incompetent young drivers weaving their spell on our roads every day of the week. Retraining of errant Drivers who lose their licenses for many different reasons would also reduce the problems that we face .This system is in force in many countries where the road accident statistics are taken seriously.
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