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Clock change called for to cut accidents
Thu, 27 Oct 2005
A change in the way we tell the time has been called for in a bid to lower accident rates.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) wants to introduce a system of Single/Double Summer Time which would affect the timing of daylight hours throughout the British winter.
Under the current system, clocks switch from British Summer Time (BST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on the last Sunday in October.
The RoSPA believe that the resultant darker evenings lead to an increase in accident rates, thereby also pushing up car insurance costs. Their solution is to keep clocks at BST throughout the winter, putting them forward another hour in March.
"We will continue to lobby the government urging it to support the scheme for lighter evenings all year round," head of road safety at RoSPA, Kevin Clinton, told ITV Motoring.
"Studies show that vulnerable road users such as children and the elderly are more at risk during dark evenings than in the morning."
The Society is petitioning for the scheme to undergo a three-year trial period in order to research whether the time change would make a difference to accident rates.
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