The facts: road safety and sustainable transport
Browse our fact sheets on key road safety and sustainable transport topics. A good place to start is our fact sheet on a safe system approach to road safety, which explains the United Nations-backed approach to tackling deaths and injuries on roads. Brake supports this approach to achieve our vision of a world of transport that is safe, green, healthy and fair.
For information on our campaigning work on these topics, see our campaigns pages. You can also visit our road safety advice pages, driver survey reports and road safety library. If you’re a fleet professional, see www.brakepro.org for resources and guidance relating to occupational road risk.
Casualties and safe systems
Safer speeds
- Speed, speed limits and stopping distances
- Speed in communities
- Speed on rural roads
- Speed enforcement
Safer infrastructure and travel choices
- Sustainable and active travel
- Cycling routes and cyclist safety
- Built up roads and 20mph limits
- Rural roads
- Motorways
- School crossing patrols
- Public transport
- Lighter evenings
Safer vehicles
- Intelligent Speed Assistance
- Seat belts and seat belt reminders
- Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
- Systems to tackle driver impairment and distraction
- Driverless vehicles (automated and connected vehicles)
- Child restraints
- Passive safety systems for vehicle occupant safety
- Passive safety systems on cars for vulnerable road users
- Vehicle maintenance
- Choosing safer vehicles
Cleaner vehicles
Safer drivers
- Drink driving
- Drug driving
- Phone distraction
- Other driver distractions (excluding phones)
- Driver fatigue and sleep apnoea
- Driver eyesight
- Driver stress
- Young drivers and graduated driver licensing
- Older drivers
- Driver gender
Safer fleets
Enforcement and justice