Death toll on roads warning

Sep 14 2004

Daily Post

THE death toll on Britain's roads may start to climb after years of decline because of a failure to invest in traffic policing, a senior officer warned yesterday. President of the Police Superintendents' Association (PSA), Rick Naylor, said police had "lost their edge" in preventing deaths on the road. Neglect of traffic policing could have serious consequences for all areas of crime fighting, he said. Mr Naylor said he believed the 3,500 deaths a year on Britain's roads could be cut if resources were directed back to traffic police teams rather than cameras. "The association believes that cameras do have a part to play in road safety but the camera does not educate the driver," he said. Story continues ADVERTISEMENT "If a traffic officer stops a speeding driver, for example, he will explain to him or her the errors of their ways." He added: "I believe a lot of fatal accidents can be prevented. It is an area of preventative policing where we seem to have lost our edge. "In the early 1990s there were 5,000 or 6,000 people killed on the roads and now it's down to 3,500 but we seem to have stuck at that figure. "There is an obvious risk that casualties will go up." Mr Naylor said he would be interested to see the Home Office gather national data on how traffic departments had been scaled down in recent years.

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