NRSC 2023: Speed dating

Published 15/11/2023 · Updated 15/11/2023

Soundbites and images from the Speed Dating session of the 2023 National Road Safety Conference. This page does not automatically refresh, click here [1] to see the latest updates. Kate Castle, Senior Road Safety Officer, Warwickshire County Council & Fay Cannon, Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership Coordinator

Kate Castle and Fay Cannon work collaboratively with partners to design and deliver initiatives, campaigns, and interventions to help Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership achieve its ambitious target to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on Warwickshire’s roads by 50% by 2030. Presentation: Safe System education through webinar series Adoption of the Safe System in Warwickshire

50% reduction by 2030 adopted target
Five working groups for each element
Coordinator and Assistant to ensure there is collaborative working and avoid duplication.

Webinar series:

Started in May 2022, the Partnership have now delivered three webinars for specific road users
All elements of the Safe System bought together to educate targeted road users.

Together on the learning to drive journey:

Safe Roads- Rural Roads and Caitlin’s Message
Safe Speeds- Motorway speeds
Safe Road Users- The DVSA ‘Ready to Pass?’ campaign and how it helps learners understand to prepare for their driving test and promoting The Honest Truth
Safe Vehicles- Essential information on choosing a first car and vehicle safety and maintenance.
Post-Collision Response- Preparation before journeys

Results:

“This webinar was very informative would be happy to attend a longer session or multiple sessions” “I enjoyed the event and thought it was a very inventive way to get parents on board” David Higginbottom, Chief Executive, Driver First Assist

David Higginbottom has spent the whole of his professional career working in the transport and logistics industry, in compliance, health and safety, and training. Presentation: First-aid for business drivers – It’s time to level up The Road Network – UK’s Most Dangerous Workplace

Key facts:

Blocked airway – will result in death within four minutes
30%-50% of RTC fatalities occur before arrival of paramedics
39% of pre-hospital deaths preventable

Opening an airway is a relatively simple procedure Equip drivers with skills to provide an effective first response A decade of award-winning training for: National Highways, DVSA, major fleets

Training goes online December 2023 You will learn how to:

Apply dynamic risk assessment to make the right decisions
Approach the scene
How and where to position your vehicle
Accurately identify your location
Gather crucial information for the emergency services
Make the perfect 999 call
How to keep calm

The regulations: Drivers must be:

Adequately trained to assess risks on the road
Given clear instructions on keeping safe

Regardless of the law:

It’s the right thing to do

Craig Carey-Clinch, Executive Director, National Motorcyclists Council

Craig Carey-Clinch has been active in motorcycling public policy and road safety issues since the early 1990s. Presentation: Ten Steps to Safer Motorcycling What is NMC?

A coalition of motorcyclists’ interests, which works together on motorcycle public policy issues – “Working together to help assure a positive and sustainable future for motorcycling” The 10 steps:

Fully recognise motorcycling in transport policy – will unlock safety investment and create more active discussion and buy-in.
Implement the CBT and training changes agreed in 2017
Review and revise the motorcycle licensing regime
Change approach to Zero Vision and safe systems – RS support and investment to apply equally across transport modes.
New technologies, automation etc to take proper account of their impact on motorcycle users
Update and promote infrastructure guidelines
Full post test training support, local initiatives, BikeSafe, IAM RoadSmart, Elite Rider Hub etc.
PPE – rider awareness of standards, role of SHARP
Create deeper analysis of stats, more inclusion of motorcycling in transport stats indicators and properly identify research gaps
Reduce the impact of crime on motorcycling

A need for licencing reform – why?

3DLD has not fulfilled its core purpose – to make motorcycling safer
Previous SI measure returns even worse result.
Complicated system – difficult to understand
Costly multiple repeats of the same two-part test
Disincentivises safety and progression
Fails to fully utilise training & testing network

Why? Unlocking the societal benefits

Convenient Mobility
Unlocking Pro-active Safety Developments
Mental Health and Quality of Life
Lower Energy Use
Environmental Benefits
Economic Transport
UK economic potential in Future Transport area

Tony Crook, Road Safety Manager, Lancashire County Council

Tony Crook is the Road Safety Manager for Lancashire County Council and leads teams in Education and Engagement, Speed Management and Safety Engineering. Presentation: Speed, camera, action (reducing speeds and changing behaviours) 8 routes across Lancashire that were installed with Average Speed Cameras between (March 2017 and August 2018) have proven to have reduced both collisions and casualties and since the average speed cameras were introduced, speeding offences have reduced by more than half.

Example – The Grane Road Lancashire: Jentoptic delivered the pan-Lancashire distributed SPECS solution covering eight routes, over 46km. The average speed cameras were evaluated in the 2 years since they went live and demonstrated that they have been successful in reducing the number of speeding vehicles on all 8 routes, with some, such as Grane Road, having huge success, reducing detections of excess speed by over 70%.

Behaviour Change – reduction in offences

A6 London Road – in the two years from March 2017 a reduction of 44.27 % detected offences.
A675 Belmont – in the two years from June 2017 a reduction of 68.68 % detected offences.
A565 Southport New Road – in the two years from August 2017 a reduction of 62.38 % detected offences.
A588 Head Dyke Lane – in the two years from October 2017 a reduction of 57.14 % detected offences.
B6232 Grane Road – in the two years from November 2017 a reduction of 70.38 % detected offences.
A59 Brockholes Brow – in the two years from December 2017 a reduction of 76.88 % detected offences.
A583 Preston New Road – in the two years from March 2018 a reduction of 25.15 % detected offences.
A682 Gisburn Road – in the two years from August 2018 a reduction of 45.43 % detected offences.

Reduction in Collisions The importance of design and collaboration:

The clear understanding that Council had in terms of the issues on the routes prior to the cameras being installed ensured the design was completely fit for purpose in tackling these points.
The collaborative approach was adopted during the design phase between partners and Jenoptik also increased the likelihood that the systems delivered results.
There was a comprehensive PR campaign that supported the roll-out of the cameras which contributed to the local residents feeling better informed and on-board with why the cameras were installed.

Success = more cameras The success of the installation of the average speed cameras within the 8 routes in reducing both offences and collisions were positive.

5 further average speed camera routes in Lancashire were progressed…through the Safer Roads Funds (SRF). Lancashire County Council received over GBP7.9m from the Department for Transport fund in 2018 to improve the safety on 5 routes that the Safer Roads Foundation had identified as being in the 50 most dangerous in England. The 5 routes – included not just average speed cameras but safety schemes too

A6 in Lancaster including an average speed/red light camera system, and pedestrian and cycle safety improvements, particularly around the Pointer Roundabout.
A581 Rufford to Euxton – including average speed cameras, measures to highlight the centreline and edge of the road, extension of the 30mph zone at Ulnes Walton and mini roundabouts at four junctions.
A588 from Lancaster’s Pointer roundabout to Skippool – including average speed cameras over 26km, measures to highlight the centreline and edge of the road, and a new zebra crossing north of Pointer Court.
A682 from Barrowford to Long Preston – including average speed cameras over 8km, solar-powered road studs to highlight the centreline, and rumble strips to highlight the edge of the road over 13km.
A683 from the M6 J34 at Lancaster to Kirkby Lonsdale – including average speed cameras over the whole length, 3.5km of roadside safety barriers, widening the footway over Hornby Bridge, and extensive upgrades to signs and lines.

A work schedule for these 5 routes to be delivered were spread over 4 years – these will now be evaluated for their effectiveness on road user behaviour change.

Next steps – LCC are now progressing other set of safety engineering schemes to make Lancashire roads safer Further evaluation – a study into the medium and long-term impacts of average speed cameras in Lancashire combined with safety engineering schemes should be undertaken by Lancashire County Council. James Evans, Founder, First Car

James Evans is the Founder of FirstCar, a company born out of a sixth form common room in Kent in 2002 with the sole objective of keeping young drivers safe on the roads. Presentation: Co-Pilot: the Vision Zero Toolkit

a shared library of road safety education, training and CPD
created by experts in behaviour change science
to improve knowledge, skill, attitudes
fully customisable with co-branding
and deployment ready

Why create Co-Pilot?

1,760 fatalities
29,804 killed or seriously injured
137,013 road casualties of all severities

But also:

human loss
economic loss
mobility loss
time loss
productivity loss

Why share a toolbox?

briefing high-quality content takes time
producing in-house content requires experience and expertise
limited benefit to completely unique content
maintaining the accuracy of content is a task in itself
targeted education means you need lots of content
designing and building bespoke content is expensive

How does Co-Pilot work?

we pool subscription fees
members share data and agree priorities
intervention plans are developed
content is produced and shared with members

Ian Harvey, Motorcycle Casualty Reduction Officer and Police Motorcycle Instructor, Devon and Cornwall Police Ian Harvey is a motorcycle casualty reduction officer and police motorcycle instructor for Devon and Cornwall Police.

Presentation: Operation Cosset In the past ten years Devon and Cornwall has seen a steady increase in Fatal and serious injury motorcycle collisions. 2022 was the highest recorded numbers of Ksi with 16 fatalities and 187 Life changing injuries

The challenge:

Engagement
Engineering
Education
Enforcement

Op Cossett – Police Drones & Road Safety

D&C Police Drone Team was formed in 2017
The team now consists of 10 full time officers
Have access to a range of aircraft
Deploying to missing people, large public events, firearms incidents, serious and fatal collisions

The tactic:

The team have now deployed alongside Roads Policing colleagues on numerous occasions at various higher risk locations around the force
The drone locates with a view stretching for a several miles in either direction and monitors that stretch of road
Driving behaviour of concern is relayed to the Roads Policing officers who are directed to intercept the vehicle
The drone records the offending behaviour and this can be used in court if necessary

The speeders:

The distance between those two points is 0.6 miles
The vehicle took 23 seconds to travel that distance
23 seconds / 60 = 0.383 minutes
0.383 minutes / 60 = 0.0063 hours
0.6 miles / 0.0063 hours = 95.2 MPH

References

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