The 'Head of Road Safety' at the IAM is Kevin Delaney, an ex senior police officer who also has a very car-centric view of the rights and responsibilities of road users. Previously Delaney was Road Safety Manager for the RAC Foundation for Motoring, yet another group lobbying for a car-centric view of 'road safety'.
(When he was with the RAC Foundation Delaney was one of those orchestrating the barrage of outrage ten years ago when it looked like the UK would be forced to adopt the European-wide policy of allowing cyclists injured in collisions involving a motor vehicle to claim against a driver's insurance without having to prove fault. This was proposed in response to the fact that in approaching 70% of collisions between a cyclist and a motor vehicle, the driver is at fault, the huge amount of resistance insurance companies show to paying out to injured cyclists even when their client was clearly at fault and so forth.)
Worst of all, for an number of years the IAM have made a concerted effort to infiltrate and influence the policies of groups genuinely campaigning for improved road safety, such as RoadPeace.
As to the 'red light jumping' statistics, it is all so reminiscent of a similar biased survey conducted by the RAC Foundation back in 2003, overseen once again by Kevin Delaney. In order to conveniently play down the level of red light jumping by motorists this 'survey' pretended that a motorist going though a red light for up to 3 seconds after it had changed was not red light jumping at all but 'going through on a late amber'!
