Road safety policy - We must tackle speed and drinking

EDDIE SHAW was clearly very disillusioned with politicians when he decided to step down in November, some six weeks before the end of his term as Chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC).

Resigning was his way of saying he was embarrassed at being part of road safety policy failure.

While he was quite critical of Transport Minister Martin Cullen, with whom he had a very difficult relationship, Mr Shaw insists his disillusionment was with politicians in general who were turning road safety into a political football.