Click here to register for our 2 day Driver Rehabilitation Course

Road Safety

Traffic management laws and their enforcement are in place with the sole aim of reducing the number of road traffic crashes, serious injuries and deaths. The more widespread the enforcement of these laws, the greater the effect and, in turn, fewer lives lost!

 

As an organisation, ARRIVE ALIVE firmly believes that providing the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service with the appropriate tools and training to enforce these laws is an absolute necessity, and we will continue to lobby the Ministry of Works & Transport and the Commissioner of Police to ensure that our officers are put in a position to effectively execute their duties.

 

The implementation of speed measuring devices greatly assists law enforcement and will contribute to road casualty reduction, but this is just the first step!

 

Until the appropriate measures for road safety are put in place, there will be no significant change to these numbers:

  • Males account for 77% of all road fatalities.
  • 60% of all fatalities take place between Friday and Sunday.
  • In 2019, passenger deaths doubled from 2018 and accounted for 29% of all fatalities.

 

Road safety is based on three main elements of risk, which work interchangeably for a collision-free motoring environment:

  • The Driver
  • The Vehicle
  • The Roads & Furnishings (traffic lights, white lines, barriers)

 

If any of these risk factors is not properly addressed, the risk for an unsafe outcome increases:

  • Dangerous Driver + Safe Vehicle + Good Road = Motor Vehicle Collision (M.V.C)
  • Safe Driver + Defective Vehicle + Good Road = Motor Vehicle Collision (M.V.C)
  • Safe Driver + Safe Vehicle + Bad Road = Motor Vehicle Collision (M.V.C)

 

The Risk Factors of Driver, Vehicle and Road must strike a balance for traffic safety to be in check, and to do this the Five E’s of Road Safety must always be present:

Enforcement
Education
Engineering
Emergency Response
Evaluation