safety

12/05/2011

The UN Decade of Action for Road Safety was officially launched this week with the backing of more than 100 private sector organisations, including vehicle manufacturers, the insurance industry and road safety professionals.

26/05/2011

More than 300 people in the UK are alive today or not crippled because just 15 roads have had simple improvements put in place.

23/06/2011

A new THINK! campaign to help cut the number of motorcyclists killed and injured on Britain's roads has been launched by Road Safety Minister Mike Penning.

23/06/2011

The Highways Safety Officers Group has become the latest trade body to team up with Highways Magazine.

01/09/2011

Drivers are being urged to take extra care at roadworks to prevent deaths and injuries among road workers as winter approaches.

22/09/2011

Specialists at Road Safety Analysis have revealed how local road safety performance has differed across the country over the last five years.

10/11/2011

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is warning that the removal of road safety targets could lead to more road traffic accidents.

20/04/2012

EnterpriseMouchel has achieved three million worked hours without a reportable injury in its role as the Managing Agent Contractor for the Highways Agency in Central Southern England.

24/04/2012

The Transport Research Laboratory and Road Safety Analysis are joining forces to support road safety delivery in the UK.

03/05/2012

Local councils in England slashed their road safety budgets by 15%  last year compared to average spending cuts of just 6% for other council services.

25/06/2012

Central Bedfordshire Council has seen a 30% fall in people killed or seriously injured in accidents, since outsourcing its road safety education, training and publicity to Amey at the end of 2010.

19/07/2012

Cuts to local authority road safety budgets have been condemned after shock figures revealed that road deaths last year rose for the first time since 2003.

11/10/2012

Union leaders are warning that cuts to the highways management contract in Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire could put road workers at risk.

25/01/2013

The Highways Agency and their contractor Aone+ are urging drivers to take extra care at roadworks in a bid to cut deaths and injuries of roadworkers.

31/01/2013

The government has been accused of cutting spending on road safety campaigns from £19m in 2008/09 to just £4m in 2011/12.

21/03/2013

The public will be able to compare their local council's road safety performance with other parts of the country thanks to a new website launched by Road Safety Minister Stephen Hammond.

08/04/2013

The Highways Agency has renewed its plea to drivers to take extra care and obey speed limits at roadworks as the Government invests extra funds in infrastructure schemes.

10/06/2013

A new scheme to improve safety along the A1 in Cambridgeshire is due to start next summer.

12/06/2013

Road safety group 20’s Plenty for Us has launched its 200th campaign in Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire.

25/06/2013

An inquiry into the safety of the UK’s 8,000 level crossings is set to take place.

05/08/2013

Highways service provider Amey has won four nationally recognised health and safety awards.

16/10/2013

Skanksa is taking to the airwaves in its fight to raise awareness among the public about driving safely through road works.

23/10/2013

Leading road maintenance companies have joined together with the Highways Agency to launch a national radio campaign to ask drivers to ‘take extra care’ through roadworks.

02/12/2013

Around 1,000 cyclists staged a “die-in” protest outside Transport for London’s headquarters on Friday (29 November) in an effort to raise awareness of cycling safety in the capital.

10/03/2011

Britain should be braced for a possible increase in the number of road deaths because of cuts to the road safety budget and traffic growth caused by economic recovery.

24/03/2011

Death and serious injuries on roads in Staffordshire have reached record lows.

12/06/2012

Six highways authorities across Berkshire have created a new shared service arrangement and appointed Road Safety Analysis (RSA) as contractor to work with them for the next four years.

26/06/2014

Essex County Council’s cabinet member for highways and transportation has called on the Highways Agency to make a number of safety improvements on the A12.

09/07/2014

A-one+, a leading service provider for the Highways Agency, is celebrating a safety landmark after it worked for more than two million hours in Area 12 without a reportable injury, disease or dangerous occurrence (RIDDOR).

02/09/2014

05/09/2014

A video has been posted on Youtube showing a lorry driving through a highways maintenance site.

09/10/2014

The Department of Transport's THINK! safety campaign is launching a new push to cut the 60% of fatalities which occur on country roads.

29/01/2015

Roads Minister John Hayes has agreed to undertake an urgent review into how the design and construction of the Sheppey Crossing was conducted.

10/03/2015

The government has unveiled plans to boost motorcyclist safety.

17/03/2015

Staff at WJ were encouraged to ‘think exceptional’ during a series of safety training seminars.

14/05/2015

A report by the RAC Foundation is calling for a young driver green paper, because of the numbers of teenagers killing or injuring hundreds of their young friends and family each year.

17/09/2015

17/09/2015

04/12/2015

The Forth Road Bridge is to shut until the New Year for repairs following the discovery of defective steelwork.

07/03/2016

Intertraffic Amsterdam – the international trade fair for infrastructure, ITS traffic management, safety and parking – is less than a month away.

18/07/2016

The Dartford Crossing had to be shut in both directions at the weekend because of a suspect package.

22/08/2016

National Road Planing (NRP), Tarmac’s road planing contractor has developed a new lighting solution to highlight safety zones around planing machines.

01/09/2016

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Transport for London (TfL) have confirmed they intend to go ahead with the North-South Cycle Superhighway to King’s Cross, after plans were supported by 70% of respondents to its consultation.

01/09/2016

Transport for Buckinghamshire (TfB) is launching its Respect our Workforce campaign, amid what it calls increasing concerns about abuse directed at its employees by some road users.

28/09/2016

Cyclists in London and Manchester are being encouraged to ‘hang back’ from lorries in a safety campaign launched by the Department for Transport (DfT).

20/10/2016

Final statistics for 2015 confirm that 168 people were killed in reported road accidents in Scotland in 2015, 17 per cent less than in 2014.

09/11/2016

The former Transport Minister, Dr Stephen Ladyman, has opened this year's Highways SIB (Seeing is Believing) event by praising the industry for its thought and skill in keeping traffic on the roads moving.

21/12/2016

Connect Plus Services, which operates the M25 road network on behalf of Highways England, has named its gritter fleet after asking its customers and schools to come up with ideas.

02/02/2017

Meteorological equipment specialists Biral, has launched a new Road Weather Sensor (RWS-20) to monitor visibility and obstruction to vision for road transport applications.

20/02/2017

Average speed cameras are to be installed on the A90 at Stonehaven in an attempt to improve safety for construction workers and road users.

28/02/2017

New statistics from Highways England have revealed that an average 83 bags of litter are collected on each mile of motorway every year.

14/03/2017

A coroner has called on Transport for London to urgently review its cycle superhighways to identify areas of reduced grip, stating "there is a risk of future deaths" unless action is taken.

24/04/2018

A new survey suggests that 20 million drivers in the UK believe it is acceptable to break the speed limit, with half of them admitting they don’t even realise they are doing

05/06/2018

The first Talking Transport podcast from the ITS America Annual Meeting in Detroit, sponsored by 3M Connected Roads, is online with the focus on safety.

06/06/2018

The second podcast from the ITS America Annual Meeting 2018 in Detroit, sponsored by 3M Connected Roads, concentrates on initiatives to help new ideas get support in order to make a difference to the way we travel.

07/06/2018

The final 3M-sponsored Talking Transport podcast from ITS America’s Annual Meeting 2018 in Detroit is now online with plenty of thought leadership, a connected vehicle demonstration, innovation from two continents and no fewer than seven exhibitors.

20/06/2018

You may not have heard him before, but you’ll probably have seen him – The Stig from Top Gear. Well one of those drivers from the Clarkson/May/Hammond era of the programme joins us on Talking Transport as Ben Collins discusses driverless cars.

22/06/2018

Rennicks has announced plans to launch three new products centred around road safety at the upcoming Traffex Seeing Is Believing event.

11/07/2018

Norfolk has become the first place in UK to trial new technology to warn drivers not to use mobile phones, the county council has said.

28/08/2018

Jaguar Land Rover has fitted 'virtual eyes' to intelligent pods in an attempt to understand how humans will trust self-driving vehicles, as research suggests three-fifths of pedestrians worry about how safe it will be to cross the road in the future.

16/12/2018

SMART Highways editor Paul Hutton has explained some of the technology behind all lane running smart motorways on a BBC Radio Five Live programme examining their safety.