If more people drove like a woman fewer children would be dying in road accidents

After four years trying to get “joined-up government”, there’s still a long way to go, if the new child road safety initiative is anything to go by. Laudable in itself, it fails to link up with the wider issues of quality of life and health.

This latest initiative offers local councils £10m for child pedestrian training projects. Most will go to deprived areas with high numbers of ethnic minorities where new research shows that child death rates are appreciably higher. The new initiative includes pamphlets in relevant languages but mainly focuses on training schemes to integrate road safety lessons into “personal social and health education”.

Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/may/09/comment.roscoward