Challenge 16: Road Safety

Road safety.

Current measures of success

• Reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents.

Key facts

• 301 people were seriously injured or killed on Somerset’s roads in 2007. 

• Children and young people (aged up to 24) represented 36% of those killed and injured on Somerset roads in 2005.

• The risk of serious and fatal road traffic collisions increases on the extensive network of Somerset’s rural single carriageway ‘A’ roads. 

• The Somerset Road Safety Partnership brings together all the main organisations who deal with road accidents and casualties: Somerset County Council, Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service and NHS Somerset.

What we will do

1. We will work to make Somerset’s roads safer, promote safer road use and reduce road accidents.

What will we do first?

• We will work to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on Somerset’s roads.
  

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