4th UN Global Road Safety Week
Discussion
...was LAST WEEK, so you have missed it.
However, it is not too late to catch up with the program online, via their web site.
https://www.unroadsafetyweek.org/en/solutions/safe...
However, it is not too late to catch up with the program online, via their web site.
https://www.unroadsafetyweek.org/en/solutions/safe...
UN website said:
Governments must set and enforce speed limits
As part of a comprehensive speed management strategy, your government can also undertake a number of other actions which collectively contribute to your safety on the roads. These include establishing and enforcing speed limits appropriate to the function of each road.
This “Death on the roads” data visualization, based on information from the World Health Organization’s Global status report on road safety 2015, lets you know if yours is one of the 47 countries around the world which has a good speed law, which is defined as having a national urban maximum speed limit of 50 km/h and empowering local authorities to further reduce those speed limits in settings where this is deemed necessary.
The data visualization also lets you know how governments rate themselves in terms of the enforcement of their speed limits.
I will let you follow the link to the rest of the UN contribution to safer roads, and discuss it's finer points.As part of a comprehensive speed management strategy, your government can also undertake a number of other actions which collectively contribute to your safety on the roads. These include establishing and enforcing speed limits appropriate to the function of each road.
This “Death on the roads” data visualization, based on information from the World Health Organization’s Global status report on road safety 2015, lets you know if yours is one of the 47 countries around the world which has a good speed law, which is defined as having a national urban maximum speed limit of 50 km/h and empowering local authorities to further reduce those speed limits in settings where this is deemed necessary.
The data visualization also lets you know how governments rate themselves in terms of the enforcement of their speed limits.
Engineer792 said:
Totally focused on speed - no surprises there then
Is it April 1st?No?
How the hell does this comprehensive misrepresentation keep running?
Even in Third World Countries where speed adds a whole new dimension to catastrophy on the roads, the real reason for the carnage is the poor standard of driving, much the same as poor driving is the overriding reason for problems on the roads here or anywhere else. And of course in a hypothetical scenario where all motorised transport operated at 5mph I expect road deaths would get close to zero. Does that indicate speed is the cause of death on the roads?
Apparently so.
Did anyone see anything different? Were speeds more monitored than before? If no, then does it matter what initiatives the UN, or any other body chooses to announce?
For info, I spent most of last week in Northern Ireland where bikes were frequently topping the 200mph mark on closed roads formthe NW200. I was doing north of 130 on many of their open roads having a play with a few friends.
For info, I spent most of last week in Northern Ireland where bikes were frequently topping the 200mph mark on closed roads formthe NW200. I was doing north of 130 on many of their open roads having a play with a few friends.
It is worth looking at the links to PREVIOUS UN SAFETY weeks, as while THIS years concentrated on appropriate speed, the previous weeks have had other priorities.
What I found concerning was the fact that they mix up other countries needs with those of the Europe and particularly the UK... so figures quoted for accident causes relate to the world situation, not the UKs.
Given our miles of properly surfaced paved roads, when compared to hundreds of miles of dirt track in some other countries, then the UK obviously faces different problems.
There isn't a World Wide cure, other that reducing speed down to a level that nobody could ever hurt themselves... but nothing would ever get done.
What I found concerning was the fact that they mix up other countries needs with those of the Europe and particularly the UK... so figures quoted for accident causes relate to the world situation, not the UKs.
Given our miles of properly surfaced paved roads, when compared to hundreds of miles of dirt track in some other countries, then the UK obviously faces different problems.
There isn't a World Wide cure, other that reducing speed down to a level that nobody could ever hurt themselves... but nothing would ever get done.
Via the work that my company does we have access to search the national accident stats and a recent search showed speed causalities for injury accidents is falling.
On the rise however is lack of attention to the road ahead. Many more being charged with DWDCA and dangerous driving.
This is a result of mobile phone use, the standard vehicle installations of a touch screen "infotainment" system and general lack of care shown by motorists these days by their responsibility to concentrate ahead at all times.
Elderly motorists are on the rise who generally are involved more in poor judgement accidents (exiting a junction without noticing or misjudging approaching traffic).
The general public are also aware of the lack of traffic police (who have been replaced by speed cameras), who are causing strange accidents that are mainly of the competition type of nature ... ie. those that involve people not wishing to accommodate other traffic and general impatience. (so merge in turn accidents, motorists pushing in front of others, also forcing out of junctions with no patience to wait and give-way etc. etc)
"Speed" has been indoctrinated in to the mindset of the public by various pressure groups as the 'one stop shop' for all accident causalities - this in my view is causing a real danger for motorists on the roads as the majority of the causal factors for road accidents are being put in 2nd place or lower.
"Speed" also has a new 'power' to keep it in the forefront of authority bodies, in that it is now being targeted due to the impending destruction of the planet due to the deadly plant gas called CO2.
So in the future, if the general public continue to passively accept the pushing forces of green pressure groups and others that think speed is the only concern on the roads, then we are all in for governments placing many more speed restrictions on roads and also increasing the penalties for speed infringements.
(To be fair on the passive public there is not a lot an individual can do, as the existing pressure groups have generally developed their arguments extensively so that they are easily accepted by MPs and government bodies - a radical change of politically elected would likely be the only thing that can change the direction we are heading).
On the rise however is lack of attention to the road ahead. Many more being charged with DWDCA and dangerous driving.
This is a result of mobile phone use, the standard vehicle installations of a touch screen "infotainment" system and general lack of care shown by motorists these days by their responsibility to concentrate ahead at all times.
Elderly motorists are on the rise who generally are involved more in poor judgement accidents (exiting a junction without noticing or misjudging approaching traffic).
The general public are also aware of the lack of traffic police (who have been replaced by speed cameras), who are causing strange accidents that are mainly of the competition type of nature ... ie. those that involve people not wishing to accommodate other traffic and general impatience. (so merge in turn accidents, motorists pushing in front of others, also forcing out of junctions with no patience to wait and give-way etc. etc)
"Speed" has been indoctrinated in to the mindset of the public by various pressure groups as the 'one stop shop' for all accident causalities - this in my view is causing a real danger for motorists on the roads as the majority of the causal factors for road accidents are being put in 2nd place or lower.
"Speed" also has a new 'power' to keep it in the forefront of authority bodies, in that it is now being targeted due to the impending destruction of the planet due to the deadly plant gas called CO2.
So in the future, if the general public continue to passively accept the pushing forces of green pressure groups and others that think speed is the only concern on the roads, then we are all in for governments placing many more speed restrictions on roads and also increasing the penalties for speed infringements.
(To be fair on the passive public there is not a lot an individual can do, as the existing pressure groups have generally developed their arguments extensively so that they are easily accepted by MPs and government bodies - a radical change of politically elected would likely be the only thing that can change the direction we are heading).
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