Road Risk Insight ArticlesIn-depth thinking on the issues that matter most in road safety – a new deep-dive every month. Each month, ARRM publishes an original, in-depth article exploring one of the most pressing questions in road safety today. Drawing on our Project EDWARD First Friday discussions – and the researchers, practitioners, campaigners and bereaved families who take part in them – these are not news summaries or quick reads. Each one is a considered, 2,000-word analysis that connects real-world experience and evidence to the government's Road Safety Strategy and to the decisions facing professionals across our sector. Recent articles have examined victim-focused justice and the case for restorative approaches in roads policing; democratic road use and the place of vulnerable road users; and the hidden safety risk of deteriorating commercial driver health. Each is designed to give you something you can genuinely use – in your own work, your own organisation, and your own conversations about how we make our roads safer. How access works. Every new article is published first for ARRM members only, who read it a full month before anyone else. One month later, it moves to our free library, open to all. So at any time you'll find our most recent deep-dive available exclusively to members, with the growing archive free for everyone to read and share. It's a simple idea: our members help make this work possible, so they get it first. If you value being current – ahead of the discussion, not catching up with it – then early access is one of many reasons to join. ARRM membership is just £50 a year. Alongside early access to every new article, members enjoy regional breakfast networking meetings with expert presentations, reduced delegate rates at our full-day conferences, and a library of recorded masterclasses spanning the breadth of road safety. A single conference discount or networking morning can be worth the membership fee on its own. 👉 JOIN NOW Download the Road Safety Strategy Our thanks to Westcotec Traffic Safety Systems for supporting the publication of these articles.
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| The emerging health timebomb for vocational drivers. A Blind Spot in the Road Safety Strategy?Every day, before an HGV turns a wheel, its driver completes a walkaround check covering well over 20 items. Tyres, lights, brakes, mirrors, load security – each one inspected, each one signed off. If any item shows red, the vehicle does not move. The system is rigorous, embedded, culturally understood, and legally enforced. Alarmingly, the person about to operate that 44-tonne vehicle may not have had a single health check in twenty-five years.
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This article follows the Project EDWARD discussion on Friday 17/04/2026 around democratic road use. The discussion featured Alan Hiscox, Director of Safety at the British Horse Society, leads the Dead Slow campaign and works daily with riders, drivers and authorities on the very concrete, daily challenge of sharing roads safely and Dr Santiago Amietta, from the University of Keele, researches how law, justice and everyday life intersect, including who gets heard when we design and regulate public space.
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| Justice without a voice: Why road crash victims are still being failed – and what the new road safety strategy must changeReflections on victim-focused justice following the Project EDWARD First Friday discussion featuring Andrew Lavanchy, a specialist roads policing officer and expert in victim‑focused justice, Angela Tyler and Diana Wood from the Ely Memorial Fund in Hereford, and Raymond Williams, a former police SIO and family liaison officer who now has the role of Police Relationship Manager with Slater + Gordon Lawyers.
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| From junction to cloud: How real-time rural road data could unlock the road safety strategy's 65% targetReflections on smart roadside technology and the government's Road Safety Strategy – drawing on a conversation with Chris Spinks, Managing Director, Westcotec.
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