£6m funding boost to make Surrey’s roads safer
Over £6m of additional funding will be dedicated to improving road safety around schools, making walking and cycling safer, and to tackle speeding at known collision hotspots across the county over the next three years. The new funding for a range of highways improvements, will be allocated as follows: £1m per year to improve road […]
Ambition to eliminate all road deaths and serious injuries by 2050 in Oxfordshire
A commitment to Vision Zero – the elimination of deaths and serious injuries from road traffic collisions in Oxfordshire – has been agreed by Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet at its meeting this week The council has set interim targets of a 25 per cent cut in casualties by 2026 and a 50 per cent reduction […]
Van driver crashes into National Highways vehicle to evade road closure
Dramatic video footage released by National Highways shows the moment a driver crashed into a patrol vehicle to evade a temporary road closure on the M6. The footage, captured by a National Highways traffic officer vehicle near Keele in April 2020, shows an increasingly irate driver tailgating the patrol vehicle which was slowly bringing traffic […]
New and improved Road Safety Toolkit online resource launched
iRAP (the International Road Assessment Programme), the umbrella programme for Road Assessment Programmes (RAPs) worldwide has launched a new road safety toolkit. To support the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021 – 2030, iRAP has launched the new and improved Road Safety Toolkit, to provide a one-stop road safety resource for engineers, road safety advocates, students […]
New mobile speed enforcement cameras launched in London as TfL and the Met continue to crack down on speed offences
Transport for London (TfL) has launched five new mobile safety cameras to tackle the risk and harm caused by speeding across London and help meet its Vision Zero goal of eliminating death and serious injury on the road network. Police data shows that half of fatal collisions in London have speed as a factor. The […]
Oxfordshire County Council’s provides response to recent fatalities involving cyclists, and wider cycling safety issues
Oxfordshire County Council has said it is committed to doing all in its power to prevent any recurrence of the recent tragic accidents involving cyclists. Three women have lost their lives on our roads in the space of six months, according to the council. Following the fatal accident at Oxford Parkway Station on 8 February […]
Cornwall Council acts on community support for reducing speed limit to 20mph in residential areas
Work has begun to install signs and road markings in Falmouth and Penryn, and Camelford, reflecting community support in those areas to reduce the speed limit on residential roads from 30mph to 20mph. Residents in those areas were consulted on the plans to encourage drivers to slow down by reducing speed limits to 20mph on […]
E-scooters have caused lower casualty rates compared to other travel modes, according to new RoSPA report
E-scooters have lower casualty rates compared to other travel modes, according to a new report by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). The report, UK E-scooter Safety Report, finds that the risk to pedestrians is ‘relatively low’, despite the common perception. RoSPA also found that there was no significant rise in incidents […]
Countywide road safety review gets underway in West Sussex
A countywide road safety review has begun in West Sussex to address collisions, speed and traffic management. Instigated by Joy Dennis, West Sussex County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport, the review, which will include a group of cross-party county councillors, will be led by former traffic police officer Tom Richardson. “Road safety was […]
ADEPT calls for a national rural speed strategy – new report emphasises need for consistency to improve safety
The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) has called for urgent changes in how we manage road speed, especially in rural areas. In its new policy position on speed management, ADEPT is calling for the adoption of the 2019 Department for Transport Safe System approach to be adopted to manage road […]
