Countywide Initiatives - Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety

The Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety is a partnership between the County and Unitary Councils, the Constabulary and the Health Authorities. It is committed to reducing the number of deaths and injuries on Lancashire's roads.

The Partnership has developed a strategy to deliver the Government's 2010 road casualty reduction targets by 2005. In Lancashire this will mean a total of 40 lives saved, 580 fewer people seriously injured and 760 fewer people slightly injured.

The Project is about saving lives, reducing injury and disability and making Lancashire a safer place in which to walk, cycle, ride and drive.

It will concentrate on three primary causes of road casualties:-

Speeding
Drink Driving
Non Wearing of Seat Belts

The Project aims to create a long term shift in the public's attitude and behaviour towards road safety. This will be achieved through intensive publicity and education initiatives supported by high profile enforcement.

Public involvement is crucial to the Project. Communities will be encouraged to commit to the Project and will be consulted at every stage.
Road collisions bring death and misery to individuals and their families. They also place a heavy demand on our communities in Lancashire, which amounts to £370 million per year.

The Project is about saving lives, reducing injury and disability, and making Lancashire a safer place in which to walk, cycle, ride and drive.

The Partnership will concentrate enforcement on crash 'hotspots' and areas of community concern. Speed is a crucial factor in most serious collisions and road deaths. In Lancashire 1/3 of all fatalities are speed related.

The Partners will be open about where speed enforcement checks will be situated. The public will be notified of the locations of new fixed camera sites through:- Local Media

www.safe2travel.co.uk - External Site
Road Signage

Road policing activities are not being carried out at the cost of crime fighting or community policing.

The priority is to change the behaviour of drivers, through education and publicity campaigns. Enforcement only applies to those who refuse to change their behaviour.

This will be the largest locally based Road Safety Project of its kind in the UK.

For Further Information Visit: www.Safe2travel.co.uk - External Site

Are You Concerned About Speeding Traffic?

If you are concerned about people speeding along local roads and making your community a dangerous place to live, there may be something you can do to make a difference.

The Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety is able to conduct mobile speed enforcement at some of the places where the local community has expressed concern over the speed of vehicles. By contacting your local Community Safety Partnership and registering your concerns, the area could become a ‘Site of Community Concern’ or CC. These sites are surveyed annually and are subject to a scoring procedure. The highest scoring sites are then enforced.

You can also request a copy of our ‘Community Action Guide’. This booklet gives details of all the relevant agencies for road safety, enabling you to express your concerns to the relevant agency more easily. Within this booklet there is an application form for a ‘Community Action Grant’. We allocate grants up to £1,000 to local community groups for road safety projects which help to decrease speed and drink driving and increase the wearing of seatbelts. For a copy of the booklet please call the Communications Team of the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety on 01772 534531.

Community Action Plan (file size = 562kb)