Webinar tomorrow- Road death and the pursuit of justice. Still time to register.

I was interviewed on Radio 4's World at One today on the RAC report on motoring's findings about speeding. You can listen to the interview here, from approx 40.30mins. We need to recognise the impact of road user attitude and behaviour on everyone's safety www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We need to address the language used in road collisions if we're ever going to recognise road injury and death as the serious public health issue it is. A *driver* lost control of their vehicle, with fatal consequences.

How well do officers understand distracted driving – and how do they police it? policinginsight.com/feature/anal...

New to Bluesky, so I'll share our new paper! Written with the wonderful @roadspolicingwells.bsky.social and Leanne Savigar-Shaw and funded by @therstrust.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Robert Miller's short film about the Metropolitan Police Traffic Patrol from 1982, when three people died every day from 'traffic accidents'. Lots to unpick here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBg9...

Nine years for laughing gas crash driver who killed his friends

Interested to see the take-up of this tech. In an ideal world we would want more officers on the roads. For those interested, Briggs et al (not on bsky 😌)have researched how the few existing officers choose whether to give a "bloody good telling off":