road safety

08/05/2013

Pedestrian safety measures should look for separate solutions for adults and children, according to a report carried out on behalf of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS).

20/09/2013

3M is hosting its latest road safety seminar in Scotland on Wednesday (25 September).

18/11/2013

Road safety charity Brake wants the Government to extend the ban on using hand-held mobiles at the wheel to hands-free phones.

12/12/2013

The M6 extension scheme has won a road safety award in recognition of measures put in place to protect drivers and road workers.

07/03/2014

New pedestrian technology that is designed to make crossing the road easier and safer is set to be trialled for the first time ever by Transport for London (TfL).

24/03/2014

A third of a million people will be killed or seriously injured on the roads in Great Britain over the two decades ending 2030 unless the government acts, according to a report commissioned by the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS).

29/05/2014

Scotland TranServ, working on behalf of Transport Scotland, has completed a vehicle safety barrier replacement project on the Erskine Bridge.

24/06/2014

London’s Transport Commissioner Sir Peter Hendy CBE has praised a programme designed to ensure that a road safety culture is embedded across the construction industry.

26/06/2014

The UK no longer tops the international league table for road safety, according to government figures released today (26 June).

29/07/2014

The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has revealed the local authority areas that have performed best and worst for reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured on their roads last year.

11/12/2014

A-one+ and Colas have been awarded a 2014 Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.

10/04/2015

The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has called on the next government to make road safety and the tackling of potholes a top priority.

26/05/2015

Progress made in cutting death and injury on roads across the UK has varied dramatically over the past five years, according to a report carried out by the RAC Foundation and the Parliamentary Advisory Committee for Transport Safety (PACTS).

09/06/2015

The Mayor of London wants to halve the number of people killed and seriously injured (KSI) on the capital’s roads by 2020 compared to the government base line.

17/06/2015

Two hundred people were killed in reported road accidents in Scotland in 2014 – a rise of 16% on the previous year.

21/09/2015

New casualty reduction targets need to be introduced if the recent increase in people being hurt on the roads is not to be repeated, according to the RAC Foundation.

23/09/2015

TfL and London’s Mayor have launched the capital’s first interactive digital collision map, which they say is part of a continued drive to improve road safety awareness to reduce the number of casualties in London.

24/09/2015

The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has called for road safety targets to be reintroduced in an effort to reverse the increase in numbers of people killed and injured on UK roads as announced today (24 September) by the government.

19/10/2015

The number of motorists being prosecuted for using their mobile phone while driving has fallen by almost 50%, according to official figures seen by the RAC.

22/10/2015

Three people died on country roads every day last year, according to figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT).

05/11/2015

Highways England is aiming for a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured on the strategic road network by 2020.

09/11/2015

Transport for London’s Construction Logistics and Cyclist Safety (CLOCS) programme has been recognised for its rapid success in improving HGV road safety with a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.

09/11/2015

Technology and social media provide the biggest distraction to drivers, according to the Institute of Advanced Motorist’s (IAM) first major survey into safety culture.

09/11/2015

A Northamptonshire man who filmed himself driving high-speed cars on roads at speeds of up to 192mph has been jailed for two years and four months.

04/01/2016

The Department for Transport has unveiled a raft of measures to improve the safety of Britain’s roads.

04/04/2016

The organiser of Intertraffic Amsterdam says the 2016 show will be the biggest ever, with more than 800 exhibitors and 27,000 visitors.

22/06/2016

Declines in the level of police enforcement of traffic offences are contributing to Europe’s failure to cut the numbers dying in road collisions, according to two new reports on road safety.

21/07/2016

Road safety inspections in Scotland will be aided by GPS and video capturing software from RouteShoot.

25/07/2016

Drivers that flout the variable speed limit restrictions in place along a busy stretch of the M4 around Newport will face tougher enforcement action, says Economy and Infrastructure Secretary, Ken Skates.

24/08/2016

Blakedale has reinforced its commitment to road safety by installing a fully recordable multi-camera system as standard to all new 7.5 tonne traffic management and 18 tonne crash cushion (impact protection) vehicles. 

21/09/2016

A report published by the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) suggests that Great Britain has consistently been among the world’s countries with the lowest rates of road deaths, but there are areas where the country does not compare well.

26/09/2016

Eight out of 10 drivers think that the removal of hard-shoulders on smart motorways has made motorways more dangerous than four years ago, according to an AA Populus poll of 20,845 drivers. 

12/10/2016

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has announced £70 million funding to support local communities and road safety along the HS2 route between London and the West Midlands.

03/11/2016

Improvements at the A737 in Beith, Scotland, have moved a step closer with the publication of draft road orders.

14/11/2016

Britain’s most improved and high risk roads have been identified in a report carried out by the Road Safety Foundation.

29/11/2016

Highways England has launched a new campaign urging drivers to slow down in the rain.

22/03/2017

The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) is calling on the Department for Transport to set up a UK Road Collison Investigation Branch in order to help bring down the number of deaths and injuries on the roads.

31/08/2017

The bidding process has been launched for the £9m A9 Berriedale Braes Improvement scheme.

22/02/2018

Ministers are inviting eight English cities to bid for a share of £6.5m to improve safety for cyclists as part of the Government’s controversial cycle safety review.

21/02/2018

Highways England has extended the deadline for people to object to its proposal to ban cycling on a section of the A63 in Yorkshire on safety grounds, following a huge number of responses.

27/03/2018

The governor of the US state of Arizona has suspended Uber’s self-driving vehicle testing after a pedestrian was killed in a Phoenix suburb last week.

24/04/2018

'Innovative' Vehicle Activated Signs from SWARCO are helping to reduce accidents at a notorious road junction in Derbyshire.

26/04/2018

Highways England is using virtual reality to raise commercial drivers’ awareness of their blind spots – particularly those from abroad – and reduce the risk of incidents.

27/04/2018

More than 30 people were killed or seriously injured in motorway crashes in 2016 due to illegal or faulty tyres, but almost three quarters of tyre failure-related motorway incidents could be prevented by simple checks, according to new research.

09/05/2018

Highways England has revealed that here are nearly 300 incidents of incursions and abuse reported by road workers on the strategic road network every week.

18/05/2018

The European Commission has announced details of its Third Mobility Package, which includes a target to reduce deaths and serious injuries on EU roads by 50% between 2020 and 2030.

06/06/2018

Transport Scotland is to install a signalised pedestrian crossing on the A92 in Fife after the transport minister met the parents of a child who was killed on the road.

12/06/2018

Ministers have promised ‘swifter justice’ for drink-drivers through new roadside breathalyser equipment but the technology remains unproven and will not be introduced for at least two years.

13/06/2018

Scotland has achieved a major success in road safety taking the country ahead of its 2020 target for reducing road fatalities.

13/06/2018

The Government has announced a three-year trial under which dedicated investigation teams will be deployed to UK roads to analyse the cause of road collisions.

18/06/2018

Former director of the Department for Transport and current director of the RAC Foundation, Steve Gooding, talks about life’s hardest lessons.

04/07/2018

The EU’s target to halve road fatalities by 2020 now seems likely to be missed, with the UK currently making no major progress, road safety experts have said.

16/07/2018

Highways England is to test whether speed limits through motorway roadworks can be increased to up to 60mph at weekends or different speeds used in different directions through the same works.

26/07/2018

Twenty-one UK police forces have signed up to a newly launched National Dashcam Safety Portal, which makes it easier for motorists to relay videos of dangerous driving that they have witnessed.

09/08/2018

The number of people killed or injured in drink drive crashes in Britain has risen by 7%, according to the latest official statistics.

09/08/2018

Following new statistics showing a rise in drink drive related crashes, deaths and injuries, Jemma Callow of Clearview Intelligence looks at the increased risk of crashes during the summer months and what can be done to make roads safer.

14/08/2018

A council has hailed the road safety improvements and ‘green engineering’ it has introduced in a £580,000 project to replace a road bridge.

23/08/2018

Highways England has sent 130,000 warning letters in two years to motorway users who wrongly used the hard shoulder or ignored red X warning signs as many continue to flout the law in the absence of automatic enforcement.

23/08/2018

The Scottish Government has launched a new round of funding to improve road safety in the country.

17/09/2018

Highways England has launched a new campaign to alert drivers to the risks of tailgaiting, as new figures show that driving too close to the vehicle in front causes more than 100 people to be killed or seriously injured each year.

27/09/2018

Motoring groups have called for more effective action to tackle road casualties after the number of people killed on Britain’s roads rose again.

01/10/2018

The Churchill Way flyovers in Liverpool city centre have closed after a routine inspection found several design and construction flaws.

19/10/2018

Highways England has linked with charity Sustrans to deliver cycling schemes worth £3m as it works to meet its target for cycling improvements in the Road Investment Strategy (RIS).

19/10/2018

The transport watchdog has called on Highways England to do more to address the safety fears of cyclists, pedestrians and horseriders.

22/10/2018

Campaigners have welcomed confirmation that planned revisions to the Highway Code will include new measures to promote cycle and pedestrian safety, including the ‘Dutch reach’ method of opening car doors to avoid hitting cyclists.

22/10/2018

Labour's shadow road safety minister is to write to the Government to ask what has happened to the unspent £75m from its £175m Safer Roads Fund.

22/10/2018

A £100m scheme to improve the 48 riskiest local authority A roads in England will prevent almost 1,450 deaths and serious injuries over the next two decades, safety campaigners have said.

24/10/2018

The latest figures from the Scottish Government have revealed impressive progress on road safety, with the number of casualties down to the lowest level since records began.

30/10/2018

A new report has highlighted the 2,549 additional deaths that have occurred on Britain’s roads in the last decade as the long-term trend of casualty reduction has stalled.

09/11/2018

Road safety vehicle hire and sales specialist Blakedale has launched a transatlantic partnership that will see it distribute a new Truck Mounted Attenuator (TMA) in the UK.

13/11/2018

Highways England has rolled out the first of a fleet of new gritters that employ the latest technology and are designed to stand out in winter conditions.

21/11/2018

Potholes and poor carriageway surfacing have topped a list of risks to cyclists and motorcyclists compiled by road safety experts.

21/11/2018

People on two wheels face a 63 times higher risk of being killed or seriously injured (KSI) per mile travelled than car drivers, a road safety charity has said.

21/11/2018

New statistics have revealed that many single carriageway roads on the strategic road network (SRN) present an ‘unacceptably high’ risk to drivers.

26/11/2018

The roads sector has been left wondering where £75m originally allocated to the Government's Safer Roads Fund will be spent, after the minister said the fund had 'done its job'.

27/11/2018

The head of the Road Safety Foundation (RSF) has raised concerns about the state of local road safety engineering in the UK, suggesting the necessary skills and finance are simply dying out.

27/11/2018

The RAC Foundation is making progress on the Department for Transport sponsored Road Collision Investigation Project, with the police forces involved, and their allocations from the £480,000 government grant, due to be finalised in early 2019.

28/11/2018

A long-awaited evaluation of the use of 20mph limit schemes has failed to find evidence of a significant short-term impact on safety but pointed out that they could provide other benefits, including promoting active travel.

06/12/2018

Labour’s shadow roads minister has accused the Government of a record of failure on road safety in the ongoing row over the unspent £75m for improvements to local roads.

10/12/2018

A £7.5m junction project by South Tyneside Council has delivered a 36% reduction in casualties since it opened in July last year as well as improving flood resilience and journey times, reliability and queue lengths - David Pringle, project manager at South Tyneside Council, explains how.

11/12/2018

Transport for London (TfL) is marking the 150th anniversary of the world's first traffic light by highlighting how it makes signal controlled crossings better for pedestrians.

13/12/2018

The national roads watchdog has challenged Highways England over its failure to publish long-awaited data on the safety of the strategic road network, Highways has learned.

16/01/2019

Transport for London (TfL) is bringing in new cameras in the Rotherhithe Tunnel to enforce safety restrictions and deter oversized vehicles from using the route.

25/01/2019

West Sussex County Council and contractor Balfour Beatty are using an innovative recycling technique on a road safety scheme that has itself been described as ‘agenda-setting’.

29/01/2019

Civica Digital has partnered with the Department for Transport (DfT) to free up police time through an enhanced version of its cloud-based collision reporting system.

15/02/2019

Road deaths involving drink-driving incidents are at their highest level since 2009, according to official estimates.

15/02/2019

The first installation project has been announced for a new HC350 concrete barrier, which offers a narrow footprint of 350mm.

20/02/2019

Infrastructure services firm FM Conway has installed new three-dimensional road markings on a zebra crossing in London to get drivers to slow down.

20/02/2019

The average speed of vehicles using a shared space in London has increased by 5mph over the past six years, new figures have revealed.

04/03/2019

Pothole compensation claims cost councils 25 times more per cyclist than for motorists, according to new research.

06/03/2019

A transport union has demanded that mayor Sadiq Khan and Transport for London improve the safety of the capital’s franchised bus services after 45 people were killed and 1,017 seriously injured over five years.

07/03/2019

New research from the RAC has found that more than a fifth of motorists have driven in a lane closed by the red X sign in the past year.

11/03/2019

The Commons Transport Committee is launching an inquiry 'to scrutinise the Government’s approach to road safety' over concern that progress on the issue has levelled off.

13/03/2019

ITS product manufacturer AGD Systems Limited has acquired Radix Traffic Limited as part of its ‘ambitious’ plans for growth.

22/03/2019

The latest in a series of powerful videos from Kier on issues surrounding mental and health and safety in the highways sector.

27/03/2019

From 2022 new cars, vans, lorries and buses sold in Europe could automatically prevent drivers from going over the speed limit.

28/03/2019

Road safety vehicle specialist Blakedale will showcase the best of its self-drive traffic management fleet of vehicles at Traffex next week, including a ‘revolutionary’ crash cushion.

03/04/2019

Jenoptik Traffic Solutions UK has announced that its VECTOR SR enforcement camera has achieved Home Office Type Approval, allowing it to be operated as an unattended enforcement device for measuring vehicle speeds.

30/04/2019

A leading road safety charity has called for new measures to increase seat belt use after a report showed a disproportionate number of people dying in cars on the roads are not wearing the compulsory safety devices.

01/05/2019

The transport watchdog has recommended that junction numbers on motorway signs should be moved to cut crashes at junctions.

01/05/2019

SWARCO Traffic Ltd has signed a new framework agreement with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland to provide traffic solutions and smart technologies throughout the country.

13/05/2019

Unmarked HGV ‘supercabs’ funded by Highways England have filmed more than 3,500 dangerous drivers in the past year, including a lorry driver using a mobile phone to make a credit card payment as he drove on the motorway

16/05/2019

The Government has approved the use of gantry mounted cameras to fine drivers for ignoring red X signs on smart motorways, more than three years after Highways England said it wanted the law changed.

17/05/2019

Highways England has hosted a high-level summit to promote work-related road safety to private sector businesses.

28/05/2019

Highways England is ‘on target’ to hit a key road safety target, despite the number of killed and seriously injured casualties on its network reported by the police increasing between 2015 and 2017 and a rise in the number of deaths.

31/05/2019

A national roll-out of 20mph speed limits in Scotland has suffered a blow after a key committee refused to recommend the bill.

13/06/2019

New data from the EU has revealed that road deaths on urban roads decreased at around half the rate of those on rural roads over the period 2010-2017 and pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists – the three most vulnerable user groups – represent 70% of those killed and seriously injured in urban areas.

17/06/2019

Transport secretary Chris Grayling has unveiled a new traffic sign which warns road users of hazards due to animals on the road.

19/06/2019

Latest figures suggest Scotland achieved mixed results in road safety last year, with another record breaking drop in overall casualties but an increase in the number of people killed on the roads.

02/07/2019

Highways England has suggested it is unlikely to meet a safety target to improve the majority of roads that fall below a key engineering benchmark but says it remains an ‘aspiration.

04/07/2019

A leading safety charity has called on ministers to set safety goals for the proposed major road network of local authority roads and for over £500m to be spent across Great Britain to improve high risk routes.

09/07/2019

Highways England is set to fall even further behind on a key safety benchmark by the end of next year, with the risk of potentially fatal head-on collisions increasing.

11/07/2019

England's approach to local road safety has major structural weaknesses and is hamstrung by a chronic lack of funding meaning councils may soon be unable to fulfil their legal duties, a new report has found.

16/07/2019

The Government has announced a two-year, first-of-its-kind joint review into roads policing and traffic enforcement will be launched later this year.

22/07/2019

The Government’s latest road safety action plan has floated a number of possible measures to cut fatalities but makes very few firm commitments.

24/07/2019

Highways England has been given a reasonably clean bill of health by its watchdog's annual report, although more progress must be made on safety, customer satisfaction and the continuing delays to delivery.

25/07/2019

New transport secretary Grant Shapps is facing calls to make road safety a priority after new statistics showed little change in the number of people killed on Britain’s roads every year.

26/07/2019

Boris Johnson has appointed two new ministers of state, Chris Heaton-Harris MP and George Freeman MP, at the Department for Transport.

07/08/2019

Highways England’s regulator has backtracked on its claims that the Government-owned company had ‘demonstrated that it is applying an evidence-based approach’ to improving safety.

13/08/2019

Influential MPs have called on government to consider a ban on using 'hands free' phones while driving to prevent ‘entirely avoidable’ road deaths.

15/08/2019

Highways England is planning to roll out a safety initiative across its motorway network after hailing the success of a week of action on the M1.

15/08/2019

A new roundabout in Essex that aims to improve safety and reduce the number of incident-related delays has opened after the cost of the scheme tripled.

16/08/2019

Labour has criticised both the transport secretary and the strategic roads regulator for not ensuring that Highways England delivers on its pledge to improve roads with a poor safety rating.

23/08/2019

Transport research experts have called on Highways England to extend the use of raised rumble strips to its single carriageway roads to improve safety.

29/08/2019

Motoring groups have called for tougher action on drink driving after new statistics showed a 25% increase in related fatalities since 2015.

30/08/2019

Highways England's control centres can take an average of 17 minutes to spot a broken down vehicle in a live lane of an all lane running ‘smart’ motorway when Stationary Vehicle Detection (SVD) systems are not in place.

02/09/2019

The widow of a driver who was killed in a crash on a smart motorway is to sue Highways England for corporate manslaughter, it has emerged.

10/09/2019

Police Scotland is considering 25 locations in Edinburgh for speed camera enforcement following the success of the country’s first urban average speed camera.

09/09/2019

Transport for London is set to take forward plans to lower speed limits on its roads across central London.

11/09/2019

Highways England is ‘struggling to understand’ the recent controversy over the safety of all lane running ‘smart motorways’, its chief executive has said.

26/09/2019

Andy Bird, managing director, GTT Wireless, examines the connected infrastructure that is already saving lives and easing vehicle flow on our roads.

26/09/2019

The number of people being killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the roads is on the rise according to official statistics.

27/09/2019

Highways England has pledged a range of actions to help reassure road users of the safety of all lane running smart motorways after coming under pressure to step up its game on safety.

04/10/2019

The new Highbury Corner junction has officially opened after 'a transformation from one of London's most intimidating roundabouts into a junction that is much safer and more welcoming for people’.

08/10/2019

Edinburgh Council could add more roads to the city’s 20mph network although the scheme has had only a limited impact on traffic speeds.

11/10/2019

Highways England has been asked by a senior coroner to review the closure of hard shoulders after an inquest into a minibus crash on the M4 that killed three people, according to reports.

17/10/2019

Highways England’s target to cut the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on its network could be revised for a second time, it has emerged.

29/10/2019

The number of people killed on Scotland’s roads rose by 11% last year, according to official statistics.

29/10/2019

Engineering, environment and design consultancy Sweco has been appointed to provide transport and road safety consultancy through the Scottish Government’s flagship Development Management and Road Safety Service Multi Supplier Framework.

01/11/2019

A legal loophole that allowed drivers to escape prosecution for hand-held mobile phone use while behind the wheel is set to be closed, the Government has confirmed.

05/11/2019

Regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has awarded the Road Safety Foundation (RSF) a contract to review how Highways England prioritises its road safety investments.

18/11/2019

New research from the road safety charity Brake suggests almost a third of UK adults could have been involved in a collision, or had a near miss, with a vehicle on a UK road in the past year.

22/11/2019

FM Conway has entered into a new partnership with the road safety charity, Brake, that will see the two organisations fundraising and raising road safety awareness together as they both aim for vision zero.

29/11/2019

Safety issues around older drivers have become increasingly critical, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) has warned.

05/12/2019

Transport Scotland is gearing up to produce a new Road Safety Framework, with a consultation on the new document expected early next year.

05/12/2019

Hampshire County Council has been fined £1.4m after a child suffered a head injury caused by an unsecured street bollard.

03/12/2019

The latest findings from the 2018/2019 Transport Scotland live brine trials have been released and after three winter seasons of research, the recommendations have become clearer and the areas of further research more specific. Dominic Browne reports