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Tomorrow's roads - safer for everyone: The first three year review
Table of contents
- Front page
- The Government's road safety strategy
- Background to the review
- The review process and objectives
- Introduction
- The casualty reduction targets
- The strategy targets
- Overview of progress towards the targets
- Introduction
- The policy framework
- Reinforcing the overall strategy
- Local Public Service Agreements with local authorities
- A road safety strategy for Wales
- Overcoming social exclusion
- Dealing with Disadvantage
- The Dealing with Disadvantage initiative
- Disadvantaged communities in Scotland
- Inner City Demonstration Project
- The road safety research programme
- Road safety legislation
- Progress in each of the ten themes
- Progress so far
- i. Improving Britain's child pedestrian record
- ii. Enhancing child road safety education
- iii. Improving the safety of school travel
- iv. Child Road Safety Audits
- v. Improving child in-car safety
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- i. Instilling in young people the right attitudes towards road safety and safe driving
- ii. Guiding learner drivers to take a more structured approach to learning and to prepare them for their driving career and not just to pass a test
- iii. Raising the standard of tuition offered by driving instructors
- iv. Improving the driving test in the light of better understanding about what needs to be examined and effective ways to do it
- v. Focusing on the immediate post-test period for novice drivers
- vi. Enhancing the status of advanced motoring qualifications
- vii. Addressing the needs of professional drivers
- viii. Reducing work related road safety risks
- Driving at work: Managing work-related road safety - Key messages
- ix. Ban on the use of hand-held mobile phones while driving
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs
- iii. Carrying out research to improve understanding of drug driving
- iv. Strengthening and enforcing laws on driving time for lorry, bus and coach drivers
- v. Driver fatigue, including making people aware how much tiredness contributes to road accidents and advise drivers and employers how to cut the risks
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Increased investment
- Safer local infrastructure
- Examples of local road safety funding and investment
- Safer strategic road networks
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- i. Publicising widely the risks of speed and the reasons for limits
- ii. Developing a national framework for determining appropriate vehicle speeds on all roads, and ensuring that measures are available to achieve them
- iii. Speed management in rural areas
- iv. Encouraging more local authorities to use the increased powers they now have to introduce 20 mph zones and speed limits, where appropriate, in urban areas
- v. Researching a number of speed management problems to gain the necessary information to develop and test policies
- vi. Pilot schemes for development of a speed camera funding mechanism, longer term roll out of camera funding nationwide
- The road safety benefits of camera enforcement
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- i. Working with representatives of interested organisations, in an advisory group, to look at issues of concern
- ii. Improving training and testing for all learner riders
- iii. Publishing advice for people returning to motorcycling and those riding for work
- iv. Helping drivers become more aware of how vulnerable motorcyclists are
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- i. Encouraging local authorities to develop plans, which include (i), measures to increase cycling and walking, and (ii) a range of measures to improve safety
- ii. Monitoring and develop Home Zones
- iii. Working with voluntary bodies to improve training for cyclists and horseriders and to promote use of protective clothing, including cycle helmets
- iv. Helping drivers become more aware of just how vulnerable these groups can be
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- i. More effective road traffic law and enforcement
- Uninsured and unlicensed driving
- ii. Penalties more appropriate and proportionate to the seriousness of offences
- iii. More emphasis on education and retraining
- iv. Maximum use of technology
- Further progress expected by 2010
- Significant points arising from the review
- Progress so far
- i. A programme of high quality, well-researched and evaluated advertising and promotion
- ii. Building partnerships to carry through a wide, coordinated and sustained road safety 'crusade'
- Going forward
- Introduction
- Overall conclusions
- Casualty reductions
- Policy implementation
- Areas requiring continuing attention:
- Overall conclusion of the review
- Developing the strategy
- Further reinforcing the strategy
- Reducing the level of road accident fatalities
- Improving the safety of motorcycling
- Encouraging more drivers to value driving as a life skill
- Reducing child casualties
- Reducing work related casualties
- More effective speed management
- More effective enforcement of traffic law
- Tackling driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs
- Making the best use of local authority resources
- Introduction
- Existing measures
- Technological advances
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