"Bring anti-bike road safety policy to UK"

The UK should adopt a controversial Swedish road safety policy linked to calls for motorcycles to be banned, an influential road safety charity has said.

Vision Zero sets the goal of eliminating road deaths altogether. It has already been adopted as official policy in Sweden and Norway and is gathering support across Europe due to the idealism of its aim.

UK-based charity RoadPeace wants it to become official policy here from 2010, when current Government casualty reduction targets expire.

But none of Vision Zero’s backers can explain how its goal can be achieved while motorcycling is permitted.

Claes Tingvall, the Swedish architect of the policy, has said there is “no place for motorcycles” in it.

He recently said motorcycles presented a “challenge”.

Amy Aeron-Thomas director of Road Peace, told MCN: “Road deaths shouldn’t be considered any more acceptable than any other kind of unnatural death.”