Following campaigning from the SUV Alliance, the newly published Road Safety Strategy, the government’s first such strategy in a decade, includes commitments to ‘understand safety concerns regarding increasing vehicle size’.

A study finds that the likelihood of a pedestrian or cyclist being fatally injured is 44% higher if they are hit by an SUV or light truck compared with smaller cars. 

Cars are getting bigger. We’ve all noticed it. Streets once home with hatchbacks are now dominated by large SUVs and 4x4s. 

SUVs have been growing, in size and in number, for two decades now. Policy action to date has been limited, hence the need for the SUV Alliance and our manifesto for safer, fairer streets.