8th January 2026 Click here to download this briefing as a pdf Summary Department for Transport’s (DfT) new Road Safety Strategy: Aims by 2035 to reduce reported numbers Killed and Seriously Injured (KSIs) by 65% and child KSIs by 70%. Continues to be based on the Safe Systems approach and thus design out danger so …
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 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 Briefing: Reducing Traffic Volumes and the Link to Reducing Road Casualties (July 2025)
Reducing traffic volumes is emerging as an important factor in delivering Vision Zero. Across the globe, the recent COVID-19 pandemic illustrated how reducing traffic can be linked to reduced road casualties. Much of the background to this comes from research by Todd Litman at the Victoria Transport Policy Institute[1]. His work reveals that exposure, in terms …
AVZ blog – July 2025: Speed enforcement in London:
2024 stats show still not enough where it matters To download this blog as a pdf click here London has recently reported its provisional casualty statistics for 2024[1]. In the last year, road deaths had increased from 95 to 110 whilst those seriously injured fell from 3,615 to 3,586, a decrease of less than 1%. …
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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 …
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AVZ Briefing – Speed Enforcement in London
February 2025 To download this briefing as a pdf click here The tables (Excel file) linked to this briefing can be viewed here Speed enforcement has greatly increased in London in recent years but is it happening on the right roads? AVZ has analysed the statistics on London speeding offences and summarised them in a …
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