Speed curbs plan to cut road deaths

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Transport Minister Jim Fitzpatrick also said the Government is recommending 20mph speed limits "in all streets which are primarily residential in nature".

In addition, the Government is proposing to annually publish maps highlighting the main roads with the poorest safety records to encourage an improvement in standards.

It will be up to council highway authorities whether they reduce the 60mph - probably to 50mph.

This would be done "where risks are relatively high and there is evidence that a lower limit would significantly reduce casualties".

The consultation paper sets out targets which must be reached by 2020 in comparison with average casualty figures for the period 2004-08.

The targets included reducing annual road deaths (currently just under 3,000) by a third; reducing serious injuries by a third; halving the number of deaths and serious injuries to children on the roads and the rate of deaths and serious injuries to pedestrians and cyclists per kilometre travelled.

Mr Fitzpatrick said: "Our current strategy has improved road safety significantly, reducing the number of deaths and serious injuries by 36% over the last decade, but eight deaths a day is still intolerable and we want to make our roads safer still.

"By improving our roads, our vehicles and our behaviour on the roads, we aim to develop a road safety system in which mistakes on the road don't lead to death or serious injury.

"We propose do this through smarter working with local partners, not through creating large numbers of new offences and regulation. We need to target action on those roads, people and behaviours most associated with death and serious injury on our roads."