@article{ref1,
title="Eliminating serious injury and death from road transport. A crisis of complacency (Book review)",
journal="World transport policy and practice",
year="2015",
author="Whitelegg, John",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="37-39",
abstract="Johnston, I.R., Muir, C., Howard, E.W. (2014) Eliminating serious injury and death from road transport. A crisis of complacency, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group ISBN 13-978-1-4822-0825-2  The world of road safety is a very strange world. It is still dominated by strong, often unstated assumptions. These include the central belief that death and injury are inevitable (after all this is what the word &quot;accident&quot; means). They are inclined towards individual behavioural explanations e.g. the pedestrian hit by a car did not take care, was not highly visible, ran out between two parked vehicles etc. On a societal scale there is an assumption that we can't reduce speeds to 30kph/20mph because this will slow traffic down, create delays, damage the economy or deprive motorists of fundamental freedoms. This is the same as putting a higher value on 1 minute of time saved for several thousand drivers than a few lives of elderly pedestrians who failed the road crossing test and were killed. The authors of this book present us with a great deal of useful information that is well-suited to the question of a total reconceptualization of road safety thinking and intervention. KW:  (term-accident-vs-injury)<p />",
language="en",
issn="1352-7614",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}