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Safer travel
Key outcome
A 33% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured on the strategic road network and a 10% reduction in the slight casualty rate by 2010.
Our response
Whilst the strategic road network in Britain is amongst the safest in Europe, we recognise that with increasing volumes of traffic, growing numbers of older and younger drivers, and its use by more diverse modes of transport, we need to continue to work hard at ensuring it stays that way.
We published the Highways Agency Safety Strategy in March 2000, which set our safety targets for 2010. Those targets, and their delivery, remain firmly in place.
As a first step, we are carrying out 49 local safety improvements as part of our programme of 100 Early Action schemes. These and other small safety schemes aimed at making best use that are carried out every year will save more than 100 people who would otherwise be killed or seriously injured each year.
We have recently announced a number of contracts to provide automatic warning of traffic queues on the M1, M62, and M25 motorways. By 2004, these systems will be in place on 30% of our motorway network and reduce by around 100 the number of people killed and seriously injured each year.
Not all our customers are travelling in motor vehicles on our roads. People live alongside and around our roads. Pedestrians, cyclists and other non-motorists use some of our roads. We want them all to do so in safety. Many of our safety projects are to safeguard these more vulnerable road users. For example, the Early Action list contains 9 schemes to help improve the safety of non-motorists.
Our work on safety goes wider than schemes themselves. We actively work with our partners to improve road safety awareness in schools and local communities.
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Further information
To obtain further information use the links below to visit other sections in the Highways Agency website.
