The ‘Five Reforms’ exist simply to restore the UK-wide road safety agenda that enabled us to have the safest in the world whilst respecting the reasonable needs of all road users. This was the case before weak governments allowed the agenda to be hijacked by unelected globalists pushing marxist agendas which have little to do with road safety and everything to do with control of the individual by an overbearing State.
1. RESTORE DISCRETION IN TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
Government To Endorse The Report of the Road Safety Commission 1947
This report set the tone that enabled Britain to have the safest roads in the world before technocracy took hold, making drivers scapegoats for a failing system. It said:
“Any system under which fear becomes the controlling factor in obtaining the required reaction among so large a section of the public who, as individuals, are generally law abiding, is not, we think, likely to produce the most effective results. The British public co-operates with the police because the relationship between them is generally one of friendly understanding rather than submission to obtrusive authority, and the more it is realised that the policeman is the friend of the motorist and cyclist who wishes to be a thoroughly safe driver or rider, though the deadly enemy of the deliberate offender, the greater will be the co-operation between the police and road users and the sooner will the standard of road behaviour be improved” = Replace ‘Policing by Coercion’ with Robert Peel’s ‘Policing By Consent’
2. EMBED THINKING SKILLS INTO DRIVER TRAINING & LICENSING
DVSA To Rethink Driver Training and Licensing
A common language and understanding of how to minimise crash risk should be part of a lifelong-learning approach which drivers refresh throughout their driving careers. The profoundly important book ‘Mind Driving – New Skills for Staying Alive on the Road’ satisfies this need through its ‘Speed-Surprise-Space’ Risk Model. Unlike ‘speed kills’, this actually defines safety but has so far been ignored by the DVSA. A form of Progressive Licensing Scheme, (e.g. Preliminary, Provisional and Full licences), should be considered in which every driver must be able to explain the Risk Model and demonstrate applying it in practice before they can progress to the next level of competence. Retaining that level can then become a badge of honour.
3. BRING ROAD TRAFFIC POLICING BACK TO COMMUNITIES
Police Forces To Reinstate Locally-Based Road Traffic Patrols
There is no substitute for police traffic officers with local knowledge patrolling every community, known and trusted because they work in accordance with the 1947 Road Safety Commission philosophy. This will facilitate intelligence-led traffic policing with officers using professional discretion as to how best to deal with errant drivers, so as to replace the technocratic, impersonal, Orwellian methods currently normalised.
4. SET SPEED LIMITS RATIONALLY AGAIN
Restore Sensible Speed Limit Setting Using The 85th Percentile Rule
This rational approach to speed limit setting optimises safe traffic flow and allows meaningful thresholds to be set for advice, enforcement and prosecution to facilitate mainly voluntary lifelong learning and re-training in the spirit of ‘Policing by Consent’
5. ENGENDER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR SAFER ROADS
Involve Local Communities In This Enlightened Approach To Road Safety
By supporting ‘Mind Driving’ courses within local community education provision and acquainting people with crash maps and causation data, healthy local interest can be generated, leading to a national culture of safer driving in partnership with the police.
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