





Safe Speed
define the relationship between speed, speeding and safety set safe and credible speed limits considering the road hierarchy to give drivers the right information about the acceptable maximum speed seek support from politicians and other road safety stakeholders apply design or engineering measures to match the speed limits enforce speed limits - design targeted awareness measures which can bring about a change in societal attitudes towards the unacceptability of speeding. Key to this approach is to provide clear evidence on the higher risk of crashes and severe injuries due to driving faster than the speed limit or the road conditions. Changing attitudes to speeding also makes enforcement more effective and acceptable
promote vehicle technologies to reduce speeding, such as Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) .
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