Clause 48
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Owen Paterson (Shadow Minister, Transport; North Shropshire, Conservative)
That was most helpful advice, Sir Nicholas, and I shall try to follow it closely.
The Government’s idea of having rest areas is interesting. We have received a briefing stating that a significant number of road crashes are caused by people going to sleep. I think that the figure is 17 per cent. We are not convinced that this measure is the right way to go about things, however, and we disagree quite strongly with the clause. There are better ways of skinning this cat.