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:
Road safety is based on three main elements of risk, which work interchangeably for a collision-free motoring environment:
If any of these risk factors is not properly addressed, the risk for an unsafe outcome increases:
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