Surrey Police explain why road safety enforcement focuses on car drivers

Roads Policing Unit (RPU) - Surrey Police - UK
@SurreyRoadCops
We often focus our enforcement efforts against those who do most harm to vulnerable road users.

This chart shows why a lot of that effort is directed at car drivers.

On average 5 people are killed every day in the UK as a result of a collision.

We must all do better.

Surrey Police, like the Northumbria Police Force we highlighted earlier, have made a commitment to tackling road safety by focusing enforcement efforts on "those who do most harm to vulnerable road users." The chart above, posted by Surrey Police's Roads Policing Unit, shows the number of fatalities caused by certain forms of transport.

By far the most common vehicle involved in the death of a vulnerable road user is the car with almost 500 deaths. No other single vehicle recorded more than 100. After 50cc motorcycles and under, bikes were involved in the least amount of vulnerable road user deaths.

The discussion is particularly important considering this week is road safety charity Brake's 'Road Safety Week' (link is external), which has led several police forces in the UK to reassert their priority for tackling the issue. Last night we reported that Northumbria Police were encouraging people to send in their videos of close passes and said that they take action on the driver in almost 80% of cases.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em82rcfW...pg&name=medium

On Tuesday, 17 November 2020 at 21:09:32 UTC, wrote:
Roads Policing Unit (RPU) - Surrey Police - UK
@SurreyRoadCops
We often focus our enforcement efforts against those who do most harm to vulnerable road users.

This chart shows why a lot of that effort is directed at car drivers.

On average 5 people are killed every day in the UK as a result of a collision.

We must all do better.

Surrey Police, like the Northumbria Police Force we highlighted earlier, have made a commitment to tackling road safety by focusing enforcement efforts on "those who do most harm to vulnerable road users." The chart above, posted by Surrey Police's Roads Policing Unit, shows the number of fatalities caused by certain forms of transport.

By far the most common vehicle involved in the death of a vulnerable road user is the car with almost 500 deaths. No other single vehicle recorded more than 100. After 50cc motorcycles and under, bikes were involved in the least amount of vulnerable road user deaths.

The discussion is particularly important considering this week is road safety charity Brake's 'Road Safety Week' (link is external), which has led several police forces in the UK to reassert their priority for tackling the issue. Last night we reported that Northumbria Police were encouraging people to send in their videos of close passes and said that they take action on the driver in almost 80% of cases.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em82rcfW...pg&name=medium

The chart is misleading. Cars only kill people when the driver has to swerve to avoid an unlit cyclist and motorists never break the law. The latter is why there has never been one single prosecution in history for a car driver breaking the speed limit or going through a red light.