Motor insurance: Councillor criticises 20 mph initiative

Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Proposals for the instruction of 20 mph zones in towns across the UK have been criticised by a London councillor.

Daniel Moyland, deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea council, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that the plans contained "flaws".

Arguing that the initiative would be a "top-down approach" to improving road safety, Mr Moyland said that local highways authorities should be given more authority to implement new methods of reducing road accidents.

"What we need instead of more speed cameras and so on is a different way of designing our streets, a way that encourages a degree of interaction between motorists and other road users," he told the programme.

Instead of simply looking at traffic lights and then "zooming ahead", such barriers should be taken away so drivers have to interact with others by "looking where they're going", he added.

Car insurance customers may be interested to know that 11,500 children were killed or injured on the UK's roads in 2006, either as pedestrians, cyclists or car passengers, the government reports.

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