An opposition MP has urged the Government to publish how it plans to reduce the amount of serious injuries and deaths on the roads by 50 per cent by 2030.

Jarion Richardson, the Shadow Minister of National Security, Governance and Artificial Intelligence, made this call after the Government announced these plans during a press conference yesterday.

This came after a 63-year-old American woman died in a Southampton collision on Tuesday.

While Mr Richardson welcomed an increased police presence after the death, which marked Bermuda’s thirteenth road fatality of 2026, and the decision to set a measurable target on road safety, he believes the Government should publish how it intends to reach its stated goal.

He said: “A target tells us where Government says it wants to go; the plan should tell us how it intends to get there.

“The public should be able to see the baseline against which the 50 per cent reduction will be measured, the interventions Government intends to use, which ministry or agency is responsible for each one, the dates by which they are expected to be delivered, and the measures by which success or failure will be judged.”

Mr Richardson said the Government should provide periodic updates “so that Parliament and the public can see whether collisions, serious injuries and fatalities are actually moving in the right direction”.

He added: “Bermuda does not need a road safety campaign season followed by a return to business as usual. We need a sustained operating model in which enforcement, legislation, infrastructure, public transport, technology, education and accountability work together.”

The Road Traffic and Motor Car (Road Safety and Penalties) Amendment Bill, drafted by the One Bermuda Alliance, was tabled in the House of Assembly last month.

However, the legislation, which aims to double the fines and points imposed for driving offences, and remove the need for police to announce when they will conduct roadside sobriety checks, has not yet had its second reading in Parliament.

Mr Richardson said the Bill “addresses one part of the wider problem” but “has never been presented as the whole solution” to road safety.

He explained: “We do not have to choose between enforcement and legislation, between speed cameras and education, or between road repairs and stronger consequences.

“A serious road safety strategy should be capable of advancing several necessary measures at the same time.

“The perfect cannot become the enemy of the good while people continue to be seriously injured and killed.”