road safety

RSTA and TyreSafe partner to promote Safe System approach

14/05/2025

The Road Surface Treatment Association (RSTA) and TyreSafe have partnered this month to help promote and embed the Safe System approach into road safety thinking.

TfL announces £87m tranche of ‘safer, healthier and greener’ borough funding

25/04/2025

Transport for London (TfL) has announced today that it is investing more than £87m across London boroughs and the City of London over the next year to make the streets ‘safer, healthier and greener’.

The Road Safety Trust funds six new projects with £1.1 million

24/04/2025

The Road Safety Trust has announced the award of over £1.1 million in grant funding for six new projects which aim to address inequalities in road safety for different communities and individuals.

West Yorkshire paves the way for a safer future

10/04/2025

Plans for a major investment into West Yorkshire’s roads have been approved, with work taking place over the next two years.

National Highways celebrates 10 years of Operation Tramline

08/04/2025

National Highways has marked the 10th anniversary since its first unmarked HGV cab went out on patrol with the police to trial new ways to deter unsafe driving, and Operation Tramline was born.

Comment: A Ranty Highwaysman at large

28/03/2025

This guest article from a deputy editor trying to make sense of highways and transport in the UK is about crossing the road.

TfL adds more green by default pedestrian crossings

19/03/2025

Transport for London (TfL) is continuing to roll out Green Person Authority signals at pedestrian crossings in the capital following a successful trial.

ORR glosses over lack of progress on SRN safety

14/03/2025

National Highways has so far only implemented half of the actions it promised last March to cut casualties on its network and remains likely to miss its safety target for the current roads period.

Rutland takes proactive approach to speed

11/03/2025

The UK and Ireland arm of SWARCO has started on a £390,281 three-year contract to supply and install vehicle activated signs across Rutland for the county council.

Crash death smart motorway not due for refuge retrofit

11/03/2025

A section of smart motorway where the driver of a stationary vehicle was killed, causing a coroner to raise concerns over the distance between safe places to stop, is not due to have extra emergency refuges retrofitted.

Slow progress on emergency SRN safety plan

11/03/2025

Some of the measures in a year-old plan that National Highways was required to draw up to address its failing safety record are ‘still going through consultation and governance’.

Drivers losing confidence in smart motorways, AA says

07/03/2025

The AA has repeated its call for the return of the hard shoulder across the English motorway network after a new survey suggested that anxiety over smart motorways is increasing.

National Highways explores new markings profile for centre line safety

17/02/2025

National Highways is considering bringing in new road marking profiles to raise the audible impact of crossing centre lines, as part of wider updates to the markings sector.

TRL working on world first – linking health records and collision data

03/02/2025

TRL has partnered with University Hospital Southampton to reduce road deaths by linking health records and road traffic collision data in what is thought to be a world-first.

Wales road safety stats: 20mph 'a beacon for the rest of the UK'

31/01/2025

The latest police statistics, covering the third quarter of 2024, show collisions and casualties on Welsh roads are at their lowest level for the summer quarter since records began, including during the pandemic.

Speed is of the essence for smart motorway refuge programme

30/01/2025

National Highways has said it is ‘working hard’ to meet its target of installing 150 new emergency areas on smart motorways by the end of March after completing just 56 with three months to go before its deadline.

National Highways tackles danger route with speed cut

27/01/2025

A top safety expert has praised a £2.1m National Highways scheme to cut collisions on a key route across Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire with lower speed limits and average speed cameras.

Toolkit for multi award-winning safety scheme released

13/01/2025

A groundbreaking toolkit in support of a Highways Awards winning motorcycle safety system has been released for road authorities.

CIHT offers to host national road safety board

13/12/2024

The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation has offered to host a new road safety board as part of efforts to support a wider, cross-sector, adoption of the Safe System approach to road risk.

Manchester goes vision zero with new action plan

10/12/2024

Leaders from Greater Manchester’s 10 local authorities unanimously approved the city region’s Vision Zero Strategy and Action Plan, which aims to eliminate road deaths and life-changing injuries by 2040.

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