The first report of the SUNflower project (Koornstra et al 2002) compared the safety strategies and programmes in Sweden, Britain and the Netherlands in 2000, looking both at forward strategies and the underlying reasons for the trends in traffic safety in each country between 1980 and 2000. Individual case studies were included on policies relating to drinking and driving, seatbelt wearing, low cost infrastructure improvements, and inter-urban road networks. The report identified many general similarities in approach to road safety policy but also identified differences in the way policies had been implemented. Koornstra et al showed that although overall fatality rates in these countries were similar, the rates for individual modes were m...