Act Before You REact
Tyre Safety months runs from 1-31 October with charity TyreSafe is encouraging road users across the UK to Act Before…
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You may well have seen the recent road safety announcements made by the Prime Minister regarding;
- A competition to design a new roadside breathalyser device for the Police (led by PACTS with £350k funding from DfT for the successful design)
- The creation of a Road Casualty Accident Investigation Project (RCAIP), led by the RAC Foundation with £480k funding from DfT to explore accident causation and opportunities to reduce collisions on our roads, on 10th June.
A ministerial statement has been published in both houses of Parliament reporting progress on the 2015 Road Safety Statement (RSS), and allocation of the Safer Roads Fund (as well as a report on lessons learned from the bidding process).
This is also refreshed commitment to RSS as a 2 year Action Plan. The DfT expect the RCAIP to inform the future approach to road safety and will be receiving regular progress reports on this work.
