An international road safety expert says the Government must keep applying targets to reduce road fatalities and serious injuries - and that reversing speed limit reductions will drive the road toll up.
It comes as officials are working on a new safety policy after the Road to Zero was scrapped.
Ellen O'Dwyer reports.
The Minister of Transport Simeon Brown said in a statement that safety was critically important to him and that police officers will be required to roll out 50,000 roadside drug tests per year and three million alcohol breath tests per year.
