Prof Wesley Marshall said current road safety data on deaths doesn't even examine potential issues with road design
Experts aiming to reduce road deaths in Ireland should be examining road design rather than driver behaviour, a traffic engineer has said.
"When I think about safety it's not just fender benders, you really need to think about safety in terms of fatalities and severe accidents. "If we design a road that is maybe overly wide and overly straight and we throw up a speed limit sign to artificially lower people's speed on it we blame them for doing so even though the traffic engineers provided this road," he said."Often times you zoom out and you look around and there's no safe place to cross. You can start to understand why they did what they did.
"Then we combine that with the bigger cars a lot of people are driving these days it's not a good mix."Prof Marshall said there needs to be 'real protection' for vulnerable road users.
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