The Safe System requires road safety practitioners to move away from only determining the causation of collisions and establishing culpability following a collision, to also identifying systemic failures which, if corrected, could prevent the severity of similar future high severity collisions.
Inspired by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Vision Zero Partnership Collision Review Panel which was established in 2023 to help identify system failures and mitigations, RSF initiated a project to replicate this work in other locales. In 2024/2025 RSF identified best practice and a terms of reference for Safe System fatal review panels, developed training materials for personnel, and delivered training to three new fatal review panels in England.
More information about the Safe System Fatal Review Panels can be found here.
