Chapter 5: Ensuring Safer Roads
Representatives from many organisations attended, including the Northwest Air Ambulance, Motorbike Academy, Emergency Medical Transport Volunteers, First Bike on Scene, Honda, Ducati and BMW. Over 500 riders attended the event which was deemed a resounding success.
5.12.4
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Data Collection
Road safety interventions are traditionally driven by the use of road traffic collision and casualty data, which is recorded by Cheshire Constabulary via ‘STATS19’ recording forms. Cheshire Police are responsible for validating the data and supplying it to the DfT and the partner Local Authorities (Warrington BC, Halton BC, and Cheshire County Council) for interrogation.
5.13.1
There is evidence nationally that a significant proportion of personal injury collisions are not reported to the police, despite it being a legal requirement to do so.
5.13.2
The Warrington Road Safety Partnership has identified through a study undertaken using hospital casualty records, that approximately only 1 in 3 collisions are reported to the police. The underreporting of collision and casualty data clearly hinders accurate understanding of road safety problems.
5.13.3
LTP Progress Report 2008
Progress with the Single Source Collision Database, enabling real time access to information, has improved the quality and consistency of data available.
5.13.4
Future Actions
• Lack of funding to implement the recommendations of the speed limit review.
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• Continue to support CRSP initiatives. • Review impact of 20mph speed limit pilot study and decide future actions. • Analyse and implement the CRSP review of speed limits for A & B roads. • Continue to develop educational materials and programmes to promote road safety. • Analyse casualty statistics to determine the success of work in deprived areas and seek DfT funding to support future targeted work.
Risks and Opportunities for Delivery of Strategy
A number of important specific risks for ensuring safer roads have already been identified concerning future funding for SRtS, cycle training and implementing the speed review. In addition, a risk management exercise has been undertaken that identifies high level risks to delivery of the shared priority as a whole.
5.14.1
The high-level risks associated with resources stand out as being the most significant and most likely to occur. This is also the area where the control mechanisms are considered to be the least effective.
5.14.2
• Seek additional funding to continue cycle training in all schools. Barriers / Risks / Opportunities • Partnership working has inherent difficulties that will need to be well managed in order to sustain momentum in projects. • Lack of new funding could result in termination, or scaling back, of successful programmes e.g. SRtS or cycle training. Page 45