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If we want safer roads for cycling we have to change how we measure road safety

Robert Davies, Road Danger Reduction Forum
15 November 2013
Robert Davies is chair of the Road Danger Reduction Forum (www.rdrf.org.uk) and author of Death on the Streets: cars and the mythology of road safety (1993). He has worked as transport planner in local government for 25 years.
Robert Davies is chair of the Road Danger Reduction Forum (www.rdrf.org.uk) and author of Death on the Streets: cars and the mythology of road safety (1993). He has worked as transport planner in local government for 25 years.

 

Last year the DfT ministers for cycling and road safety sparked outrage by suggesting that the Dutch had an inferior cycling safety record compared to the UK. Of course, in terms of cyclist deaths per 100,000 population – the conventional ‘road safety’ metric – it is worse. But in terms of deaths per journey, distance, or time travelled – it is far better. 

From a road danger reduction point of view, as opposed to the conventional road safety view, the people...

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