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Systems-Thinking Approach Taken in Landmark New Book on Road Safety 

 

Neil Arason's book, No Accident: Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads, documents how a systems-thinking approach can fundamentally address one of the worlds largest and most preventable public safety problems.  The World Health Organization has estimated that 1.2 million people are killed, and 50 million injured each year as a result of road crashes. Arason documents how a safe-system approach, involving humans, roads, and vehicles, can fundamentally alter these sobering statistics.

 

Learn more:

http://neil.arason.ca/

MACLEAN'S Magazine Takes a Closer Look At Road Safety Systems-Thinking Approach - June 10, 2014

 

Brian Bethune of MacLean's Magazine (Cars vs. people) sheds light on a growing awareness of how a few simple changes on our roads could reduce traffic fatalities to zero.

 

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http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-cure-for-killer-cars/

Public Sector Innovation Saves Lives 

 

British Columbia's new justice approach has reduced alcohol related impaired driving deaths by 52 percent.

 

 

VICTORIA - B.C.'s tough laws have decreased drinking and driving deaths by an unprecedented 52 per cent, three years after they were launched in memory of four-year-old Alexa Middelaer.

 

The Province originally set its goal to reduce drinking and driving fatalities by 35 per cent by the end of 2013 when it launched the Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) program on Sept. 20, 2010, in honour of Alexa who was killed by a drunk driver in 2008.

 

The 52 per cent decrease by the end of last year represents 190 lives that have been saved since the legislation came into effect. Under the IRP program, drinking-and-driving fatalities have dropped significantly to an average of 54 a year, from a prior five-year average of 112.

 

Read more:

 

http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/02/in-memory-of-alexa-190-lives-saved-on-bc-roads.html

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