North Canterbury News: December 14, 2023
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Road to Zero:<br />
Pie In The Sky?<br />
How many ofyour friends and family<br />
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seriously injured in traffic crashes? Most<br />
people would say none.<br />
Another word for that is zero. And that<br />
is where the Road toZero road safety<br />
strategy got its name from.<br />
Nobody is unrealistic enough to believe<br />
that zero people will be killed orseriously<br />
injured incrashes. The zero is ameasure<br />
of how okay weare at allowing it to<br />
happen.<br />
The Road toZero strategy gets dismissed<br />
by many people as unrealistic because<br />
those people don’t understand the<br />
concept onwhich it’s based: zero<br />
tolerance for the things that injure and kill<br />
people.<br />
Over the years wehave focussed onthe<br />
number ofpeople who are killed each<br />
year, sowethink the zero inthe name<br />
relates tozero people getting killed. Not<br />
so.<br />
The Road toZero strategy instead sets<br />
out programmes and infrastructure being<br />
done to work toward people not getting<br />
killed orseriously injured onthe roads.<br />
Mostly the strategy isabout how changes<br />
can bemade totransport infrastructure<br />
(e.g. roads, cars, driver licensing) to try to<br />
stop human error from turning into injury<br />
or death.<br />
In 2018 asurvey was done to look at<br />
the attitudes and beliefs that drivers in<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> have toward road safety. A<br />
couple of interesting things came out of<br />
that.<br />
The first was that most people rate<br />
themselves as agood driver, oratleast<br />
better than others. This belief is formed by<br />
the fact that drivers see the mistakes other<br />
people make, but they don’t see their own<br />
mistakes and bad driving.<br />
Next was that everyone thinks driver<br />
education isagreat idea………. for<br />
everyone else. But because most<br />
people don’t think they need education<br />
themselves, they don’t go and get that<br />
driver education. Truth is, there isplenty of<br />
driver education available already, but until<br />
people accept that they need to improve<br />
too, it’s probably not going to happen.<br />
And that’s the heart ofthe problem:<br />
people want less road deaths and injuries,<br />
but don’t think they need to make any<br />
changes themselves toachieve this.<br />
We all want better roads, better driver<br />
licensing, safer vehicles, better driver<br />
education. These things will happen<br />
over time with investment. But we could<br />
all improve these outcomes today by<br />
owning our own road safety, bydriving<br />
in amanner that reduces the chances of<br />
becoming victim to our own mistakes, and<br />
the mistakes ofother drivers.<br />
People want change, but often those same<br />
people don’t want tochange.<br />
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