Sir, – A recent study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has shown that pedestrians and cyclists are 44 per cent more likely to be killed if they are hit by someone driving an SUV, compared with a traditionally sized car. For children, that figure rises to a staggering 82 per cent.
Their presence on our roads is undermining hard-won road safety gains and making our streets more dangerous. If SUVs were a country, they would be the sixth-most polluting in the world. SUVs are causing enormous harm to our shared planet.
Only a small group of people genuinely need to drive an SUV. For everyone else, I ask: is it not time to ban them? If we are serious about road safety, if we are serious about climate action and a liveable future, then I believe we should. – Yours, etc,
Dr OLA LØKKEN NORDRUM,
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