Organisation: Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland)
Date uploaded: 25th March 2011
Date published/launched: March 2011
Northern Ireland's Road Safety Strategy to 2020 outlines the key challenges to be addressed over its life.
These challenges will include:
• Continuing to reduce the numbers of road deaths and serious injuries;
• Focusing specifically on improving safety on rural roads;
• Working particularly to protect young drivers (age range 16-24) and motorcyclists;
• Reducing inappropriate and illegal road user behaviours including speeding, drink and drug driving and careless and dangerous driving; and
• Improving our knowledge and understanding of, and broadening involvement in, solving road safety problems.
The strategy includes a number of proposed measures to help achieve the targets, with a particular focus on young drivers. These include implementing an improved programme of measures to influence young people’s attitudes and behaviours; and reassessing and improving the way that novice drivers first learn to drive and/or ride, are tested, and continue to learn throughout their lives.
The strategy also includes a consultation on proposals to amend the existing 45mph speed restriction on learner and restricted drivers and introduce a new system of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) to replace the current ‘R’ driver scheme.
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