"Department for Transport Road Safety Minister David Jamieson yesterday stressed the importance of alcohol locks in cars, and that technology to detect the presence of drugs at the roadside is being developed for use by Police.
He was speaking on the importance of cutting down on drink and drug driving at the start of the International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) in Glasgow."
David Jamieson today also spoke highly of the way Scottish road safety experts and practitioners were often in the forefront of the battle to reduce road casualties.
The Government has challenging targets on road safety. By 2010 it aims to:
> Reduce killed and serious injuries by 40% from the 1994-98 baseline.
> Reduce child killed and serious injuries by 50% against the same baseline.
> Reduce the rate of slight injuries by 10% against that baseline. "
