Welcome to North East Lincolnshire's Road Safety Team website. As part of North East Lincolnshire's commitment to new road accident reduction targets set by the Government, this web site has been made available to increase individual road users awareness of the dangers associated with roads, and to provide accident reduction and road safety advice for all road users.
More road safety information, advice and campaigns can be found at the right hand menu.
Background
Every year around 3,500 people are killed on Britain's roads and 40,000 are seriously injured. In total, there are over 300,000 road casualties, in nearly 240,000 accidents, and about fifteen times that number of non-injury incidents. This causes considerable grief and suffering for the individuals and families involved, a large proportion of which could be avoided if all road users applied more caution.
2010 Targets
Reduction targets for fatal and serious injury accidents set by the Government in 1987 have been met, but in a further effort to reduce the grief and suffering caused by road accidents, more additional targets have now been set, which must be met by 2010.
More details can be found at the Department for Transport website (opens in new browser).
North East Lincolnshire's Road Safety Team are committed to achieving these targets, which require:
- a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents
- a 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured
- a 10% reduction in the slight casualty rate, expressed as a number of people slightly injured per 100 million kilometres
The new targets will be challenging as reductions in the last period (1987 - 2000) were undoubtedly helped by marked changes in attitudes to drink-driving and legislation on seat belts.
Working in Partnership
North East Lincolnshire's Road Safety Team cannot achieve such a major improvement in road safety on it's own, and recognise that working in partnership will be essential. The main partners include :
- Humberside Police (opens in new browser)
- voluntary groups and road user associations
- motor manufacturers
- Individual Road Users - drivers, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians.
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Traffic Calming
The increase in traffic in recent years has meant that once quiet residential areas are being used by more and more vehicles. In some cases the vehicles are travelling too fast for the road conditions and causing nuisance and danger to residents in the area. For this reason, North East Lincolnshire Council has adopted an area based approach to traffic calming which is intended to create a safer and more pleasant environment for all road users and pedestrians Have your say! by completing the on line Traffic Calming form
Contact Details
If you require any Road Safety or Accident Reduction Information for Business purposes then please complete the Road Safety Accident Reduction - Request for Information form on-line or contact an officer on telephone number (01472) 324487 during office hours. Monday to Thursday 09.00 - 17.00 hours, Friday 09.00 - 16.30 hours. (There is a minimum fee for this service).
To book the Road Safety Officer for Educational Road Safety Talks please contact the Road Safety Officer on (01472) 324448 or complete the on line form.
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