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SAFE ROAD DESIGN TO SAVE UK £6BN EVERY YEAR
Britain can cut its toll of road deaths and serious injuries by a third simply by investing in better road design, saving 30 lives or serious injuries a day and Britain's economy £6bn a year. According to the Campaign for Safe Road Design, a consortium of the UK's...
GB EURORAP RESULTS 2008: GETTING AHEAD – RETURNING BRITAIN TO EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP IN CASUALTY REDUCTION
A 13km section of road between Macclesfield and Buxton has been named as Britain's most dangerous road in the latest British EuroRAP results ( Getting Ahead: Returning Britain to European Leadership in Road Casualty Reduction). The single-carriageway road has been the...
IRELAND EURORAP RESULTS 2008: RISK & STAR RATING OF IRELAND’S MAJOR ROADS
Ireland has made progress with the building of motorways and dual carriageways, and has fixed the worst of the country's single carriageways in the last few years. But the long stretches of single carriageway roads on the network continue to be a major safety hazard...
STAR RATING ROADS FOR SAFETY: UK TRIALS 2006-07
The EuroRAP Road Protection Score provides a star rating for the safety built in to the road, based on how well its design would protect car occupants from severe injury in a collision. Each road is star-rated from 1 to 4, with 4-star representing a road engineered to...
GB EURORAP RESULTS 2007
A short section of road in Lancashire tops the list of Britain's most dangerous roads, and has killed or seriously injured nearly 100 people in the last decade, according to the latest assessment report by the Road Safety Foundation for EuroRAP. The 15-mile stretch of...
TRANSPORT SCOTLAND WINS INAUGURAL TEC, SURVEYOR AND EURORAP PASSIVE SAFETY AWARD
A large scale endeavor to save lives through safer roads was recognised at the inaugural TEC, Surveyor and EuroRAP Passive Safety Award 2007 at Traffex 2007, held at the Birmingham NEC. Transport Scotland won the award for its commitment to reducing roadside risk,...
GETTING ORGANISED TO MAKE ROADS SAFE: EURORAP 2ND PAN-EUROPEAN PROGRESS REPORT LAUNCHED
A new report from the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP), Getting Organised to Make Roads Safe, urges member states to 'get organised' to stem the estimated EUR160 billion that annually bleeds away in road accidents -- two per cent of Europe's entire GDP....
NEW SCORING TO IDENTIFY CRASH LIKELIHOOD IN UK
The first full UK road inspections began in October and will continue until the end of the year. Using the newly-updated Road Protection Score, the inspections will provide star ratings for 7,000km of major inter-urban roads in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern...
MAKE ROADS SAFE CAMPAIGN CALLS ON WORLD LEADERS TO TAKE ACTION OVER ROAD DEATHS
The Commission for Global Road Safety, an FIA Foundation initiative, is calling on world leaders to contribute significant development funds for road assessment programmes in developing countries. Of 3,000 adult and 500 child deaths every day on the world's roads, 85%...
MAKE TRANS-EUROPEAN ROUTES BENCHMARKS FOR ROAD SAFETY
A call for EU-wide legislation to raise the safety on the Trans European Road Network (TERN) to 4-star standard by 2010 comes in a European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP) response to EC proposals on safer road infrastructure. EuroRAP believes this to be the right...