RoSPA have waded into the debate surrounding daylight savings time.
As a European Commission proposal to end seasonal clock changes is about to be discussed in the House of Lords, the national accident prevention charity has called on peers to consider whether the current system of daylight savings time is really necessary.
RoSPA reports that a spike in number road deaths and serious injuries corresponds with the move to daylight savings time in the autumn, when the clocks go back an hour. Last year there were 37 pedestrian deaths in the September, but the figure leapt to 46 in October when the clocks went back, peaking at 63 in November.
The European Commission proposal would see the UK on British Summer Time all-year round, and RoSPA chief executive Errol Taylor thinks the Government should give it serious consideration. He said, “A move to British Summer Time (GMT+1) all year round, which is one of the options to be considered, could save many lives by providing an extra hour of daylight throughout the autumn and winter. The clock change system was created more than 100 years ago when the country was a very different place; there are now more people on the road, there is far more electric lighting and technologies have advanced more than anyone back then could have predicted.”
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