How we can reduce deaths and serious injury on our roads by 40%

On average, one person is killed and seven are seriously injured every day on New Zealand roads, says The Spinoff. But those numbers aren’t just statistics. They’re our friends and whānau. But can we reach a transport system where no one is killed or seriously injured? Road to Zero is a ten year strategy with a target to reduce deaths and serious injury by 40% by 2030. “Fundamentally what we are trying to design is a system [so] when things go wrong, people are protected from exposure to forces that exceed the tolerance of human bodies,” says Road to Zero portfolio manager Tara MacMillan.