The 'road safety'? problem has come to be seen essentially as a problem relating to drivers' behaviour. With this framing around the figure of a deviant or delinquent driver responsible for 'deaths on the roads'?, this issue is apprehended from the angle of police and justice. As a result, no attention is paid to the fact that road safety is also a problem relating to vehicles, infrastructure, national or urban development, and the organization of production, consumption and work - or to the fact that it is furthermore a public health problem due to the large number of seriously injured accident victims. Why then is an apparently restrictive definition of this public problem maintained?