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In the last 10 years over 375,000 people have been killed or seriously injured in road crashes in Britain, wasting 1.5% of GDP annually – more than we spend on primary schools or on GPs.

International research says Britain can do much more on safe road design, particularly on roads outside major towns where two-thirds of road deaths occur.

Making roads safe will prevent 10,000 deaths and serious injuries a year. These will continue if the government does not take action on safe road design. Britain’s roads can be as ‘self explaining’ and ‘forgiving’ as the best in the world.

The government is starting its road safety review, giving the opportunity to target safe road design on busy high risk roads. A formal, systematic safe road infrastructure programme – even without the planned further action on driver behaviour or vehicle safety – could cut casualties by one-third in less than a decade by treating or removing road hazards known to maim and kill. The social and economic returns are among the highest in the economy.

We need commitment from the government to make safe road infrastructure programmes central to its road safety strategy beyond 2010.

Current signatories

John Dawson, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/noavspeedcameras/)
• Paul Marden
• John Holden (petitions.pm.gov.uk/Thereisnogod)
• Roger Latham
• Alan Wells
• Philip Godfrey
• Trevor Clift
• Graham Marsden
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Andrew Constantine
• Alistair Scott Brown
• MR. L.Naugher
• Kyle Griffiths
• Meryl Turner
• Shane Martin
• Rex Coleman
• John Bissett
• Andrew Fraser
• JILLIAN ROBINSON
• james wishart
• Jack McAulay
• Paul Robertson
• Deborah Sims
• Michael Groll
• adam ash
• Les Owen
• Michael Page
• Christopher Charles Creighton Ross Palmer BA Hon's Psy
• Elsi Hampton
• Peter Barlow
• paul reade
• Edward Fice
• George Everard
• Mark Sutton
• Brian Hughes
• Chris Robertshaw
• Martin Cutler
• Mark Dibden
• John Maplesden
• Donald Macbeth
• Tom Wildy
• Richard V Jones
• Richard Huddleston
• Daniel Roberston
• Grace Dawson
• Patrick Donnelly
• Vincent Crosby
• Make Britain GREAT again
• Bridget M J Wall
• Dawn Woodward
• Howard Redwood
• Richard Woodward
• Joan Tolley
• Rachel Gould
• Cecily jean Bottrill
• Alistair Wood
• janet clemes
• JohnHodgkinson
• Harriet Berwick
• Jill Vincent -Wilson
• jason mcfarlane
• Alice Dawson
• Jennie Morris
• Rebecca Lee
• Jessica Price
• Rachel Love
• MAri Yamazaki
• Melissa Scarlett
• Emily Hill
• Anna Kelly
• Rita Matos
• Callum Kerry
• Geoff Molineux
• Emily Godfree
• Suzy Charman
• Eleanor Gosden
• Alexandra Hunter
• Ian Curnow
• Lee Kerr