Road Safety Week: Emergency response to Northern Ireland RTCs captured on film
Northern Ireland’s Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins is urging everyone to take care on the roads ahead of the release of a series of social media videos, which portrays what happens at the scene of a serious crash. Each film looks at the crash scene from the perspective of firefighters, paramedics and police officers as they […]
Staffordshire: Drivers demand action over A500 blackspot
Safety measures are set to be rolled out at a North Staffordshire accident blackspot as highways officials investigate an ‘unexpected’ increase in collisions. The junction between the A500 and Alsager Road, near Audley, has seen a spate of accidents in the last few weeks, most recently on 8 October when a car and a van […]
RoSPA: Urgent action needed to further reduce road deaths in Great Britain
“Act now to make UK roads safer” – this is the message from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Responding to the latest Reported Road Casualties Great Britain figures from the Department for Transport (DfT), the charity highlighted concerns that the 1 per cent decline in road deaths to 1,602 in 2024, despite a four […]
Catford residents’ concern as road sees 10 bus crashes in first half of 2025
People living on a road in Lewisham that has seen 10 crashes involving buses in seven months are calling for urgent safety measures as they fear someone could be killed. About 3,700 buses pass through Sandhurst Road and nearby Sangley Road in Catford each day, with 150 to 180 buses serving the area every hour, […]
Transport Scotland to launch safety review after Perth M90 flyover crashes
Transport Scotland has said that it will launch a safety review after two separate crashes on the M90 flyovers in Perth. The announcement confirmed a review will take place into the safety of the flyover bridges at the Craigend Interchange. It comes after two lorries crashed through the M90 barriers at Craigend in just over […]
Welsh Transport Secretary: Latest road collision data shows things are moving in the right direction
New road collision data published today shows that casualties have reduced on roads since the introduction of the new 20mph speed limits in September last year. The data, which provides the total number of casualties in police recorded collisions, shows that in the last quarter of 2023 (October – December) road casualties on 20mph and […]
SWARCO announces Dutch cooperation to prevent lane closure crashes
SWARCO, Heijmans, V-Tron and NXP, members of Bouwend Nederland and TechniekNederland, have joined forces to increase road safety with infrastructure-to-vehiclecommunication and are in contact with the Dutch government to contribute in the improvement ofroad safety around roadworks. Every day, between 200 and 500 drivers in the Netherlands ignore the red cross indicating a laneclosure on […]