GEM Motoring Assist is urging the UK to reinstate national road safety targets, after successful delivery in London.
The breakdown company says the UK Government should learn from Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s example in using tough targets as an incentive to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads nationwide.
GEM chief executive David Williams commended the efforts of the Mayor and Transport for London. “Latest figures show London has met its previous target of a 40% road casualty reduction six years early. It’s particularly encouraging to note that London achieved a 12 per cent reduction in cycling casualties, in spite of huge increases in the number of people getting on bicycles.
“The new target, which aims to halve road casualties by 2020, shows how seriously road safety is taken in London. It may be tough, but it will serve to guide the work done by all those organisations involved.
“Tough targets, backed up by robust action plans, should be at the heart of a national road safety strategy. We urge the new UK government to waste no time in taking a leaf from the book of Boris, their new member for Uxbridge, in spearheading an equally worthwhile plan for the country as a whole.”
This view echoed that of the fleet industry, who included the desire to reinstate targets in the 2015 Fleet Industry Manifesto, published prior to the General Election.
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