No Accident
Subtitle: Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781554589630
Subjects: Traffic safety; Transportation, canada
Description: "It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canadas roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each persons safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognised ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward." --Publisher description.