Arrive Alive Trinidad and Tobago

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In the face of impossible odds, people who truly love their country can save it.

We need your help to save our country.

You can help by getting your company to implement various road safety policies (you can even implement these in your family), or make a donation, or give us ideas.

The major causes of road carnage are excessive speed and alcohol consumption. The Police has no technologically advanced means of measuring speed at night (and barely so during the day) and no scientific way to measure blood alcohol content. If even the measurement is a challenge, then control is painfully difficult and enforcement all but impossible.

Between 2003- 2005 there was a 14% increase in the number of reported motor vehicle accidents and a 7% increase in persons killed in Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs). There are a number of causes which may be attributed to this:

1. Increased # of vehicles on the roadways both new & foreign used (we currently have over 700,000 registered vehicles for our 1.3 million citizens!)
2. Increase in the # of licensed drivers
3. Increased affordability of motor vehicles
4. Increase in the # of inexperienced drivers owning or accessing a vehicle
5. Increase in driver distractions – cell phones, DVD players, etc.
6. Lack of Enforcement of Traffic Safety and Licensing Regulations
7. Insufficient # of Police and Licensing Officers dedicated to traffic safety
8. Lack of continuous training for Traffic Police/Licensing Officers
9. Lack of meaningful penalties for traffic violations eg. driving while under the influence of alcohol
10. Lack of Measurable performance by governing bodies
11. Inconsistencies in Licensing Standards and Vehicle Inspections
12. Lack of legislation for technology use in traffic enforcement
13. Lack of proper driving instructor training and auditing
14. Lack of defensive driving training/drivers education for drivers
15. Insufficient infrastructure for minimising accidents
16. Insufficient infrastructure for increasing volumes of traffic
17. Poor pedestrian infrastructure and education
18. Insufficient illumination on many roadways for night usage
19. Increase in stressed out, impatient drivers, creating a new class of driver
20. Lack of data measurement for traffic safety management strategies

Of course there many more reasons but these are the main culprits that have resulted in the implosion of traffic safety systems.

We believe that even without the very necessary and overdue legislation for the breathalyser and radar gun, road carnage can be successfully addressed.

Our campaign is now engaged in the creation of consequences for breaching traffic laws at both a private sector and public sector level.

Perhaps we can convince auto insurance providers to make blood alcohol testing mandatory in the event of an accident.