ABSTRACT
Road deaths have remained stubbornly static for many years, at approximately 3500 a year. In 2000 the UK Government published a ten-year plan for road safety entitled ‘Tomorrow’s Roads – Safer For Everyone’. This set some ambitious targets; a forty percent reduction in the number of road deaths and serious injuries, a fifty percent reduction in children killed or seriously injured and a ten percent reduction in slight injury accidents. The same document advocated the wider use of retraining rather than punishment of drivers as one way to achieve these aims. The National Driver Improvement Scheme is a driver retraining scheme based on this type of educational approach.
