GOVERNMENT TO FUND UPGRADING OF ENGLAND’S 50 MOST RISKY ROADS
The government is to invest £175m in England’s 50 most risky ‘A’ roads that were identified by the Road Safety Foundation in its latest report Making Road Travel as Safe as Rail and Air. The new Department for Transport funding package follows the...
FUNDING PACKAGE FOR GB’S MOST DANGEROUS ROAD ANNOUNCED AT RESULTS LAUNCH
FUNDING PACKAGE FOR GB’S MOST DANGEROUS ROAD ANNOUNCED AT RESULTS LAUNCH Britain’s most persistent high risk Á’ road is set for an upgrade with help from a £1 million cash boost announced by the Government on 14 November. Under Secretary of State for...
MAKING ROAD TRAVEL AS SAFE AS RAIL AND AIR
MAKING ROAD TRAVEL AS SAFE AS RAIL AND AIR We no longer need accept road deaths. The annual death toll can be driven towards zero. Travel on our road system can be made as safe as on rail and air within a generation. Sudden road trauma destroys families but in the...
MAKING OLDER DRIVERS SAFER FOR LONGER
MAKING OLDER DRIVERS SAFER FOR LONGER Leading road safety experts have recommended raising the mandatory fitness to drive self-declaration for licence renewal from 70 to 75 years old – if proof of an eye sight test is made compulsory. The recommendations are...