ROAD accidents will, unfortunately, always happen.

But with modern day cars safer than ever, and more and more money seemingly being pumped into road safety, a reduction in road casualties should be achievable.

Instead, Lancashire has seen a rise in the number of road deaths and a significant increase in injuries related to people using bikes and motorbikes.

It’s encouraging to hear the number of child deaths and injuries has fallen sharply but clearly there is work to be done in other areas to save lives, injuries and public money.

Education is at the heart of where change needs to focus. Engineering projects can only do so much good if drivers are taking risks and performing poorly behind the wheel.

Road safety is given due prominence at primary school level but it perhaps needs to be discussed in more depth in the latter days of secondary school when teenagers are thinking about driving lessons and itching to get their freedom.

Education campaigns surrounding drink-driving and wearing seatbelts have proved effective in the past.

Now speeding needs to be tackled with more enforcement and training volunteers in our communities to operate speed cameras with the police under ever-increasing pressures.