Vehicle safety standards should align with the EU as a priority

Today (17.2.22) the Alliance has written to the DfT reminding them of our call for vehicle safety standards in line with the EU as a priority action, in support of a letter sent a fortnight ago by former Transport Ministers. See letter below, and read about the letter from former Transport Ministers here.  

Dear Secretary of State,

Two weeks ago, former Transport Ministers wrote to you, regarding the need for the United Kingdom, having left the European Union, to implement its own vehicle type approval system, incorporating 15 vehicle safety standards of life-saving importance that have recently been adopted within the EU.

I write on behalf of the Safe Roads Alliance, which comprises 48 esteemed UK organisations listed here.

The Alliance came together last August, in support of the development of the Government’s road safety strategy and submitted the Safe Roads for All report. The Department for Transport welcomed the receipt of this important, collaborative, and informed report; and we would like to remind you that implementing in the UK the vehicle safety regulations recently adopted in the EU, as mentioned above, is one of the five priority actions that Government was urged to take in the Safe Roads for All report.  

On behalf of the Safe Roads for All Alliance, we therefore add our voice to that of the former Transport Ministers and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) in support of this life-saving action and would value a reply on this important policy decision.

(on behalf of the Safe Roads for All Alliance)  

Mary Williams OBE

Chief Executive of BRAKE