The UK’s Highway Code is a de facto manual for road use. In 2022, a revised version was released including a hierarchy of road user responsibility, imposing the greatest duty of care on those in charge of vehicles capable of causing greatest harm in the event of a collision. In the context of a brief survey of walking, road safety, and prevailing traffic law in the UK, it is asked how this hierarchy might be turned from well-intentioned words (as now) into a means of improving road safety. A possible way forward is presented in which penalties for traffic offences would be based, in part, on the momentum of the vehicle involved. The possible benefits and disadvantages of this approach are discussed, leading to a tentative conclusion that it would lead to a net reduction in injury. The paper concludes with discussion of recently released sentencing guidelines that appear to follow broadly the idea proposed.


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    Titel :

    Implications of a “Road User Hierarchy” for Road-Safety Law


    Beteiligte:
    Tira, Maurizio (Herausgeber:in) / Tiboni, Michela (Herausgeber:in) / Pezzagno, Michele (Herausgeber:in) / Maternini, Giulio (Herausgeber:in) / Cohen, Tom (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ; 1987 ; Paris, France June 15, 1987 - June 17, 1987


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    18.09.2024


    Format / Umfang :

    12 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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