In this NZ Herald story, Greg Murphy comes out against the Ministry of Transport's proposed Vision Zero strategy (even before the consultation documentation is released), arguing that to reduce road deaths we should focus on more or better driver training to reduce the number of crashes.

The MoT's new strategy, it seems, will instead acknowledge there will always be road crashes, and will seek to redesign roads to reduce the likelihood that a crash will result in fatalities or life-changing injuries.

A similar debate has raged for years in workplace health & safety, which can be expressed as: fix the worker vs fix the work environment.

Murphy is in the "fix the driver" camp, not the "fix the driving environment" camp.

Is he right?