Government agencies are admitting failure in their attempts to make roads safer, and now say their target to reduce deaths and serious injuries by 40 percent over a decade is unrealistic.
The road toll has soared this year and is on par with 2018, the worst year for road deaths in recent memory.
This despite the government's nationwide Road to Zero plan, which is supposed to see an incremental reduction in road deaths.
Producer Ben Strang spoke to Charlotte Cook.
