Our June 2023 Meeting

Why everything we knew about safety was wrong: Medical metaphors to make sense of confounding findings 

Kate Carpenter

Thursday, June 15th at 7:30PM

The North End Club, 70 Roff Avenue, Bedford, MK41 7LW

What can stroke treatment teach us about motorway management?

How is car design like clinical drug trials?

What do junction designs have in common with drug prescribing?

Kate Carpenter is a specialist in operational road safety – that is the safety of people using and working on our roads. She has given evidence to Transport Select Committee.

She makes the case for how evidence based road safety must understand and respect the most unpredictable component in the road system: the human (or what collision investigators call “the nut that holds the steering wheel”!)

Kate will share some of what she’s learnt in 35 years in road design and safety and hopes to combine entertainment and enlightenment (and sacrifice a few sacred cows along the way).