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Motorist Courtesy Campaign

Volume 203: debated on Monday 10 February 1992

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24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will introduce a motorist courtesy campaign, including television and cinema advertising, to enforce respect for the rights of pedestrians, cyclists and other road users.

As part of our wider policy initiatives to improve the safety of vulnerable road users we are currently running a series of campaigns to make motorists more aware of their responsibility for the safety of others, particularly children. These campaigns focus on the need to slow down in residential areas, where inappropriate speed is a major contributory cause of accidents.