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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1988

PEDESTRIANS STILL HIGH IN ROAD ACCIDENT TOLL

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ROAD ACCIDENTS INCREASED IN 1987, RISING BY 8.8 PER 1986, WITH ACTUAL CASUALTIES INCREASING BY 11 PER CENT.

CENT OVER

PEDESTRIANS CONTINUED TO BE THE ROAD USERS MOST AT RISK.

IN THE 1988 EDITION OF THIS IS REPORTED STRATEGY PAPER ISSUED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL.

THE ROAD SAFETY

THE STRATEGY PAPER IS NOW PRODUCED BIENNIALLY, AND ISSUE COVERS 1986 AND 1987.

THE LATEST

FOR

IN THE TWO-YEAR PERIOD UNDER REVIEW, PEDESTRIANS ACCOUNTED

PER CENT OF 73 PER CENT OF THE PEOPLE KILLED ON THE ROAD AND FOR 33 ROAD INJURIES.

THAT

STEPPED-UP

ROAD SAFETY

THE PAPER NOTES PUBLICITY EFFORTS HAD HELPED TO REDUCE FATAL ACCIDENTS ELDERLY.

AND EDUCATION INVOLVING THE

FATALITIES IN THE CENT IN

"FOLLOWING 1985'S SHARP RISE IN PEDESTRIAN 60 AND OVER AGE GROUP, THERE WAS A COMBINED DROP OF 18.2 PER THE YEARS 1986 AND 1987," IT SAYS.

THE

PAPER

POINTS

POLICE

CONTINUED

ΤΟ

GIVE PEDESTRIAN, SPEEDING AND VEHICLE

OUT THAT THE PRIORITY TO ENFORCEMENT ACTION ON MAINTENANCE OFFENCES.

THE

PAPER

REPORTS

THAT

THE

CONTINUED

DECREASE

IN DRIVER IMPLEMENTATION OF DO SAVE LIVES

FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES COMPARED TO BEFORE SEAT BELT LEGISLATION INDICATES THAT FRONT SEAT BELTS AND LESSEN THE SEVERITY OF INJURY.

SEAT BELT LEGISLATION IS LIKELY TO BE PUBLIC LIGHT BUSES IN 1989.

EXTENDED TO TAXIS AND

TRAFFIC

THE ON

NEW ROAD SAFETY LEGISLATION FOR PRIVATE ROADS WILL EMPOWER

PARKING REGULATE

AND MANAGEMENTS OF PRIVATE ESTATES TO PRIVATE ROADS WITHIN THEIR ESTATES.

CODE WAS CODE PREVIOUSLY IN

THE PAPER NOTES THAT IN JULY LAST YEAR A ROAD USERS' PUBLISHED TO REPLACE AND SUPPLEMENT THE HIGHWAYS USE.

USERS, THE INFORMATION ABOUT THOUGH AIMED PRIMARILY AT ROAD SAFETY MEASURES AND ROAD TRAFFIC LEGISLATION IS ALSO INTENDED FOR BY ROAD SAFETY TRAINING OFFICERS, TEACHERS AND PARENTS, AS A BOOK.

USE RESOURCE

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