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4 E’s v Fatal 4 Paul Watson Road Safety Manager Durham County Council
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4 E’s v Fatal 4
Paul Watson
Road Safety Manager
Durham County Council
• Legal framework
• 4 E’s v Fatal 4
• Regional Partnership, Resources and
Performance
• Causes of Collisions
• Educational Resources
• Key Groups
• Enforcement
Topics
The 1988 Road Traffic Act, Section 39, puts a "statutory duty" on the local authority to
undertake studies into road traffic collisions, and to take steps both to reduce and
prevent them.
The pertinent wording from the Act is:
39.2 Each local authority must prepare and carry out a programme of measures designed
to promote road safety and may make contributions towards the cost of measures for
promoting road safety taken by other authorities or bodies.
39.3 Each local authority -
– Must carry out studies into accidents arising out of the use of vehicles on roads
or parts of roads, other than trunk roads, within their area
– Must, in the light of those studies, take such measures as appear to the authority
to be appropriate to prevent such accidents, including the dissemination of
information and advice relating to the use of roads, the giving of practical
training to road users or any class or description of road users, the construction,
improvement, maintenance or repair of roads for which they are the highway
authority and other measures taken in the exercise of their powers for controlling,
protecting or assisting the movement of traffic on roads
Legal Framework for Road Safety
• Engineering.
• Enforcement
• Encouragement
• Education
4 E’s
• Seatbelts.
• Mobilephones/distractions
• Speeding
• Drink/Drug driving
The Fatal 4
• 12 LA’s
• 3 Police Forces
• 4 Fire Brigades
• Highways England
Road Safety Partnership
Casualty Mapping Website
• Access to all
• Mapping of casualties by Police force, LA area.
• By severity
• By age
• By road user group
• Every collision resulting in injury is recorded.
NE Regional Resource Website
Casualty Recording
North East
•Fatalities currently shown to have fallen from 58 in 2017 to
48 in 2018 – a reduction of 17%
•KSIs currently shown to have fallen from 951 in 2017 to
919 in 2018 – a reduction of 3%
•Total casualties currently shown to have fallen from 5,552
in 2017 to 5,193 in 2018 – a reduction of 6%
Casualty Performance
Cleveland
•Fatalities currently shown to have risen from 7 in 2017 to
10 in 2018 – an increase of 43%
•KSIs currently shown to have fallen from 159 in 2017 to
134 in 2018 – a reduction of 16%
•Total casualties currently shown to have fallen from 941 in
2017 to 833 in 2018 – a reduction of 11%
Casualty Performance
Durham
•Fatalities currently shown to have fallen significantly from
19 in 2017 to 9 in 2018 – a reduction of 53%
•KSIs currently shown to have fallen from 246 in 2017 to
211 in 2018 – a reduction of 14%
•Total casualties currently shown to have fallen from 1,521
in 2017 to 1,323 in 2018 – a reduction of 13%
Casualty Performance
Northumbria
•Fatalities currently shown to have fallen from 32 in 2017 to
29 in 2018 – a reduction of 1%
•KSIs currently shown to have risen from 546 in 2017 to
574 in 2018 – an increase of 5%
•Total casualties currently shown to have fallen from 3,090
in 2017 to 3,037 in 2018 – a reduction of 2%
Casualty Performance
The most common causation factors in the vast majority of
regional collisions are:
• Fail to look,
• Looked but did not see, or,
• Failed to judge the path or speed of another vehicle.
They account for almost 58% of our collisions as a driver,
rider or pedestrian.
Common Causes of Road Collisions
Visual Camouflage
Education and Enforcement
v
Fatal 4
•Young Drivers
• At Work Drivers
Key Target Road User Groups
Why Target Young Drivers?
• While young people account for only 7% of driving
licence-holders in the region, they account for 20%
of all road casualties,
• Two thirds due to the action or failure of the young
person themselves.
Young Drivers
• Pre-driver education events in schools and colleges
• Free training post-test.
• Social media campaigns.
• Peer to peer learning
• Modern apprentice training schemes
• ROSPA alliance
How to Address Young Driver Safety
Simple Messages
• I in 5 casualties in the NE involve someone driving for
work
• One third of all fatalities on the NE roads involve
someone driving for work.
• Over the last five years 6,402 collisions, resulting in
9,084 casualties, involving people driving for work
occurred on NE roads.
• 748 people were seriously injured and 74 killed.
Work Related Road Safety
Enforcement - Speeding
How are speed limits enforced?
• Safety cameras
• Police cars
• Unmarked police cars
• Community speed watch
Knowing Your Limits
Speed Limit (mph) Fixed penalty Summons
20 25 35
30 35 50
40 46 66
50 57 76
60 68 86
70 79 96
Cone Vision and Speed
NE Regional Road Safety Officers
Most Councils employ Road Safety staff with a
responsibility for casualty reduction and working in
partnership to improve the safety of our roads.
NE Regional Road Safety Resource Website
http://www.tinyurl.com/necasualtydashboard
RSGB NE Website
https://www.lookoutroadsafety.co.uk/
Twitter @RSGB_NE
Facebook @RSGBNE
YouTube Road Safety GB North East
