Casualty reduction

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Monitoring of injury road traffic collision from data supplied by the police. The detailed analysis of collision data to establish characteristic causes and to identify treatable action. The implementation of local safety schemes.

The council has set out its transport and road safety strategies in the Local Transport Plan 2001/06. The road safety strategy has been formulated with the police and health authority to cover both collision prevention and collision reduction. This is to supplement the road safety work of the government and other agencies.

The primary aim is to reduce the number of people killed or injured on Wiltshire's roads and to work towards the government's casualty reductions targets for 2010. These are:

• 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured
• 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured
• 10% reduction in the slight injury casualty rate

The 12th Joint Report - Road Casualties in Wiltshire & Swindon 559kb

The collision prevention and reduction activities in the strategy are based on the well established three 'E's of Education, Enforcement and Engineering.

Engineering measures

In accordance with the road safety strategy the resources available for collision reduction, local safety schemes, involving engineering measures are targeted at the sites with the worst collision problem. This is done by monitoring the injury collision that occur on county roads to establish the cluster sites and A & B classification roads with an above typical collision rate. The cluster sites are the locations; bends, junctions etc, where three or more injury accidents have occurred in the last three year period.

The collision data is subject to detailed analysis to establish characteristics, causes and to identify treatable action.

Each March, the Regulatory Committee of the council decides the collision sites from the cluster list and sections of roads with above typical collision rates to be treated in the forthcoming year with the funds allocated for local safety schemes by the committee.

Frequent requests for action to improve safety at a location or along a length of road are received by the council either by letter, telephone or e-mail.

For each representation:

• The collision data is interrogated to establish the injury record for the site/road for the latest three year period.
• The circumstances of any collisions identified.

Last updated: 2 February 2011