With the government due to publish its long-delayed road safety strategy tomorrow and selected highlights being fed to newspapers, it’s worth going back to what the Times reported in August.
Drivers over 70 who fail eye tests face ban in road safety overhaul
Ministers are preparing the biggest shake-up of driving rules for two decades, including a reduction in the drink-drive limit
The measures are expected to be contained in a new road safety strategy, due to be published in the autumn.
Today, five months on, the same paper reports basically the same story:
Older drivers face eyesight tests, alcohol limits could be tightened and penalty points given for not wearing seatbelts under plans to improve road safety.
The strategy is reported to have targets for cutting thousands of deaths and serious injuries over the next 10 years, which means, if we take them at their word, that a lot of deaths and serious injuries could have been prevented if it had come out a few months ago.
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