Road traffic safety refers to
methods and measures for reducing the risk of a person using the road network
being killed or seriously injured. The users of a road include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, their
passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport, mainly buses and trams. Best-practice road safety
strategies focus upon the prevention of serious injury and death crashes in
spite of human fallibility (which is contrasted with the old road
safety paradigm of simply reducing crashes assuming road user compliance with
traffic regulations). Safe road design is now about providing a road
environment which ensures vehicle speeds will be within the human tolerances
for serious injury and death wherever conflict points exist. Furthermore, the
highest possible degree of safety shall be ensured when transporting goods by
road. It is of vital importance to monitor and validate the road transportation
safety, including comprehensive checks on drivers, vehicles and safety processes.