AVZ Blog – New Fatal Crash Sentencing Report highlights failings of road death investigation

31st October 2025 To download this as a pdf click here Published last week, the report Behind the Headlines: Sentencing after Fatal Crashes was commissioned by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking (APPGCW) and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Transport Safety. The 85-page report was written by Professor Sally Kyd, the …

AVZ Briefing – London Vision Zero Enforcement Dashboard: outstanding omissions and inconsistencies

September 2025 To download this briefing as a pdf click here Key points The London Vision Zero Enforcement Dashboard (LVZED) offers up to date information on motoring offence sanctions started by the police. But its usefulness is limited as it: 1. Does not provide data at borough level. 2. Combines the NIPs given for public …

AVZ blog – Met Police and reducing road danger – review for London Vision Zero Action Plan 2

September 2025 Download this blog as a pdf here TfL is busy developing the next London Vision Zero Action Plan (LVZAP2). This will be a joint plan with the Metropolitan Police (Met), as was the first LVZAP.  So AVZ has produced a few briefings summarising the progress by the Met and with traffic law enforcement, …

AVZ update – London disqualification comparison: key Road Danger Reduction offences

September 2025 Download this update as a pdf here Key points Few drivers are banned in London for speeding, careless driving or using a mobile phone. Of those convicted at court in London (2024), less than: 2% speeding convictions resulted in a ban 5% careless driving convictions led to a ban 2% mobile phone offences …

AVZ Briefing – London Speed Enforcement mid-year 2025 update: 20mph offences on the increase

Septmeber 2025 Download this briefing as a pdf here Key findings (Jan-Jun 2025) 20 mph speed limit offences rose to 204,000 for the first half of 2025. This suggests a total of over 400k for 2025, so up 25% from 2024 and over 10 times that in 2018, when the first London Vision Zero Action …

AVZ Briefing – Road danger reduction and key offences: how the Metropolitan Police compares to other police services

September 2025 Download this briefing as a pdf here Key points London through TfL and the GLA has led the country on reducing road danger in Britain, e.g. 20mph limits, Direct Vision Standards with lorries, and speed limiters in buses and TfL’s fleet. But to be complete, the picture should include work by the police …

AVZ Blog – Independent Sentencing Review’s relevance for motoring offences

5th June 2025 Led by David Gauke, a former Conservative Justice Minister (2018-19),  the Independent Sentencing Review has published their final report with 48 recommendations. The first time such a review has been conducted in England and Wales, it was necessitated by the prison crisis. Prisons are full,  very expensive (prison place costs over £53 …

London Vision Zero Enforcement Dashboard—Two Years On

AVZ Blog - 15th April 2025 Transparency is important. Without it, you do not know what is happening and that includes what to criticise or congratulate. And transparency is especially needed with traffic law enforcement as it is often lacking. Whilst the Home Office publishes crime statistics on a monthly basis and at a local …