This is a consultation document. Its purpose is to inform and assist discussion about New Zealand’s road safety strategy for 2010. It is presented largely as we think the road safety strategy will finally appear, but differs from it in two main ways. It leaves open the target level of road safety; this is a decision that should come out of the consultation process itself after we have weighed up all the relevant issues.Nevertheless, it makes a case that New Zealand should aim for the level of road safety currently attained by leading countries —that is ‘current world’s best practice’. It leaves open the matter of how we should achieve current world’s best practice, as this depends on the mix and intensity of road safety interventions we choose to use. In this document we present three possible options that bracket the range of the possible. The final choice will come out of the consultation process. This document is aimed primarily at those with a professional interest in road safety. But we also want it to be accessible to non-specialists, so wherever technical language is unavoidable we try to explain it in plain English (for instance box 3 ). At the same time we address every issue that we encountered in preparing the proposed strategy, however complex. For those wanting more detail we have produced two supplementary documents (LTSA Working Papers 6 and 7, see ST 20001720 and ST 20001721). (A)
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