More than a million people die on roads every year. Meet the man determined to prevent them
BBCMore than a million people die on roads every year. Alamy Claes Tingvall has been fighting for improvements in road and vehicle design to cut the number of fatalities in crashes for nearly three decades This "systems" approach wasn't new to road safety experts, but it differed from the way officials looked at road collisions, which was primarily through a criminal justice lens. While the US is lagging behind Europe and Australia in improving road safety, there is increasingly a "safe-systems approach" inspired by strategies such as Vision Zero, says Bruce Hamilton, executive director of the Roadway Safety Foundation, a road safety charity that is one of two successor organisations from the ASF. This was the beginning of an approach to road safety known as "Vision Zero". Tingvall believes this could supercharge the way Vision Zero is implemented, leading to road safety improvements in supply chains that cross into the developing world, and removing the debate from the political sphere.
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