Improving Road Safety Together

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• Improving Road Safety Together
• Preparing new drivers for real life on our roads
• Carly Brookfield
• Driving Instructors Association

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Who/what is irresponsible?

• Parents who pay just enough to get their children
  through the test
• Instructors who allow them to, with little or no
  explanation of the benefits of being correctly
  prepared
• Accompanying parents passing on bad habits due to
  lack of up-skilling and ensuring their knowledge
  is up to date
• Parents with young impressionable children in the
  car
• Licence holders who shape and influence young
  people every day
• Have-a-go-heroes those conducting road safety
  and driver education activity with no real
  expertise or experience
• A system that allows non qualified people to
  conduct driver training
• the trainee instructor licence
• post test/advanced driver training
• Regulation which requires us to MOT our vehicles
  regularly, but not our driving
• (most RTCs are 90 human failure, 10
  mechanical failure)

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Who/what is really irresponsible?

• A learning to drive curriculum funneled towards a
  one-shot test with a bigger focus on reversing
  and parking than independent driving
• How irresponsible of any Government, past,
  present, or future to continue to allow 195,000
  injury incidents a year to occur without any
  meaningful intervention.
• How dangerous to cut a road safety budget by 80
  when over so many people die on our roads
  annually
• Is there complacency about having one of the best
  road safety record in Europe?
• Is an arrogant belief in our driving standards
  our greatest problem, and biggest danger?

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What are the costs of being irresponsible?

• 1.7m per death
• Cost to the NHS and other public services of
  KSIs
• Increased cost to every taxpayer
• The grief to 1,000s of families

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Better solutions?

• Education
• A consistent road user safety education
  curriculum in schools (intra and
  extra-curricular)
• Intervention and preventative education from an
  early age
• A consistent approach to road safety education
  delivered by road safety and driver training
  professionals
• Children will train parents and peers
• Re-education and more frequent re-training of
  existing licence holders
• More rigorous focus on the quality of all driver
  and road safety education programmes
• A competency based, mandatory learning to drive
  curriculum with a mandatory requirement to be
  taught by an ADI
• Graduated learning, not graduate licences
• There is a current annual spend in schools of
  159m on
• SRE (sexual health)
• Drug abuse
• Yet more young people die in cars

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Betters solutions?

• A new learning to drive curriculum
• Mandatory lessons with a qualified trainer
• Recorded in a log book
• Pre and post test
• Core competency and modular assessment approach
  not just a single shot test
• Increased focus on independent driving
  manoeuvres rarely kill
• Accompanying parent courses
• To improve the quality of private practice
• Telematics for all new drivers
• To help them assess their strengths and
  weaknesses
• With a trainer to support them
• Increasing the quality and skills of driver
  trainers
• Closing any loopholes allowing non-driver
  trainers to train
• Consistent delivery of the National Standards for
  Driver and Rider Training
• The right people involved in driver and road
  safety education, for the right reasons

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Fantasy driver development cycle?
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Better solutions? The C words

• Collaboration
• Cooperation
• Consistent
• Continuous
• Competent
• Curricular (and extra curricular)
• Car occupant and all road user safety
• Considered CSR
• Common cause the conservation of life

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Thank youcarlybrookfield_at_driving.orgwww.driving
.org