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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

Thank you.

Paul Watson – Durham County Council

Email paul.watson@durham.gov.uk

Tel: 03000 286166