Road safety - We must take personal responsibility

The latest survey on road safety makes for depressing reading with the attitudes of drivers displaying a laissez faire attitude towards the question of safety.

The survey commissioned by the Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) reveals a general feeling of a lack of public faith in road safety enforcement. There are low expectations of being caught for infringements and even the introduction of the points system has failed to make a substantial impact on this mindset.

The survey blames politicians, maintaining that they had failed to implement important road safety legislation that had been in existence for many years.