Highways Agency

• Education

Accidents on the Trunk Network - 2006

The document, 'Accidents on the trunk network', provides quantified road safety information and guidance (rather than instruction) that describes the current state of the network.

The document is intended for use by Highways Agency staff, their Managing Agents and those in the public arena with an interest.

This information is designed to enable them to:

• answer safety queries from Government, colleagues and the public;
• provide a national safety perspective for balancing needs across the network;
• help achieve the objectives of the Strategic Safety Action Plan (SSAP);
• make sound strategic and budgeting decisions concerning the future management and safety of the network;
• monitor changes in safety on the network year on year;
• assist in developing and monitoring the safety statements prepared by agents.

Objectives and Content

The objectives of the document are:

• to provide a national overview of current road safety strategies and targets (Summary);
• to provide an overview of the trunk road network’s casualty trends, noting trends in severity (Section 3);
• to provide a perspective of injury accidents by road type (Section 4);
• to provide a perspective of injury accidents by area (Section 5);
• to provide a perspective of injury accidents by customer group (Section 6);
• to provide references to useful sources of information (Section 9).

You can download the document in PDF format below:

• Accidents on the Trunk Network (1.3MB PDF)

Fact Sheets

• Improving Road Safety Accident Fact Sheet 07/08 - Print Version* (547KB PDF)

* The print version of our fact sheets are designed to be printed as a fold up pocket size document, when printed back-to-back.

• Fact Sheets - Accident Data for the Trunk Road Network 2004 - 2006 (371KB PDF)