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Roads - safety - dangerous road junctions
Summary of Service
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 County 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.
Details of Service
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 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. Regular liaison takes place with the Traffic Police and Safety Camera Unit on collision sites.
Each March, the Regulatory Committee of the County 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 County Council either by letter, telephone or e-mail.
For each representation:
a) The collision data is interrogated to establish the injury record for the site/road for the latest three year period.
b) The circumstances of any collisions identified.
Contact Details
By Post
Highways Network Maintenance
Environmental Services Department
County Hall
Bythesea Road
Trowbridge
BA14 8JN
By Email
traffic@wiltshire.gov.uk
By Telephone
01225 713000
By Fax
01225 751600
| A to Z Names | Roads - safety - dangerous road junctions, Roads - safety - dangerous road junctions |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Collision sites |
| PID No. | 545 |
| IPSV Category | Road safety |
| Level 1 Name | Roads - safety - dangerous road junctions |
| IPSV ID | 252 |
