ISA presents a huge potential to deliver safety benefits

摘要

Speeding is a universal road safety problem. The link between travel speed and accident occurrence/severity has been well documented (Nilsson, 1982; Baruya, 1998; Elvik, 2004). The faster the vehicle goes, the less time the driver has to respond to incidents, and the harder the vehicle hits; it is not rocket science. Yet, speeding has long been the most common traffic offence dealt with by police action (Ministry of Justice, 2008). It is not seen as a crime by most drivers and is widely believed to be socially acceptable (Corbett, 2000). For example, a recent one-week operation by police forces across 22 European countries as part of the TISPOL's Life-saver project discovered that 636,038 drivers were detected breaking the speed limits (European Transport Safety Council, 2009).