RoadSafe News

International news
A new Decade of Action aims to reduce deaths by fifty percent In a General Assembly UN has proclaimed the period 2021–2030 as the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety, with a goal of reducing road traffic deaths and injuries by at least 50 per cent from 2021 to 2030.  Read more...
Commit to Act - Global tracker Launched by The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety at the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference, the Commitment Tracker is an online tool to support NGOs in gathering and monitoring SMART commitments for road safety actions.  Read more...
NACTO’s Global Designing Cities Initiative releases Designing Streets For Kids New urban design resource focuses on children and caregivers, offering practical solutions and inspiration to make streets safer and more welcoming for all.   Read more...
Star Rating for Schools news The latest Star Rating for Schools newsletter details how its Lead Partners are engaging partners and leading safer infrastructures around the world.  Read more...
Winners of the GRSF Call for Proposal FY2020. A vital part of the GRSF mission is the Road Safety Grant Program, which supports road safety research and initiatives at the global, regional and country levels by distributing donor funding externally to global partners as well as internally leveraging road safety impacts through World Bank transport investment projects.  Read more...
UK news
£300K funding for Road Safety Projects. Road Safety Trust, a charity dedicated to making the UK’s roads the safest in the world, will open its Small Grants Plus Programme to applications on 15th September for five weeks.   Read more...
UK Road Safety Week: No need to speed. ‘No need to speed’ has been announced as the theme for this year’s UK Road Safety Week, which takes place between 16th -22nd November.  Read more...
Driving at work
Project EDWARD 14-18 Sep This year campaign will focus on driving for work and will be delivered in association with police forces across the UK as well as Highways England through the Driving for Better Business Campaign.  Read more...
Fire & Rescue Services Champion Good practice Driving for Better Business features Fire & Rescue Service Champions from Kent and North Yorkshire.   Read more...
Driver Characteristics and Crash Involvement: the evidence base In the ‘How to Select Safe Drivers’ white paper, from DriverMetrics Dr Lisa Dorn outlines the research conducted into driver characteristics and crash involvement, whilst driving for work:  Read more...
Courier |Company becomes a Driving for Better Business Champion Huge savings and increased efficiency alongside safety improvement.  Read more...
Employee Mobility and Well-being Survey. Driver safety and well-being specialist Drive iQ is offering employers the opportunity to benefit from its complementary Employee Mobility and Well-being Survey.   Read more...
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
StreetWise reveals consumer confidence in autonomous vehicles Consumer confidence in autonomous driving technologies is high – this was the major result from a commuter trial in London led by the UK’s self-driving technology firm, Five, in a project partnership called StreetWise, alongside TRL and Direct Line Group  Read more...
Automated Lane Keeping System call for evidence The UK Government launches consultation on an automated system capable of taking vehicle control to make driving safer and easier.  Read more...
Young drivers
THINK! Restart Activity THINK! has launched a new series of social films in response to easing of Covid-19 restrictions and high-risk young male drivers returning to busier roads.   Read more...
Safer vehicles
2019: Historic year for vehicle safety in India. 2019 was a historic year for vehicle safety in India.   Read more...
Helmond tests impact of Intelligent Speed Assistance Within CIVITAS ReVeAL, the city of Helmond (the Netherlands) is trialling Intelligent Speed Assistance to gauge the impact of vehicles using it on average traffic speed.  Read more...
Safer roads
Improving road safety through speed management in Accra With the support of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIRGS) 2015-2019, pedestrian footbridges, new speed limits, crosswalks, and installation of traffic lights were completed in an effort to make roads safer in Ghana.  Read more...
Speed management
Northumbria Police overwhelmed by support for new wide area speed camera strategy Northumbria Police has been inundated with support after announcing a new wide area speed camera enforcement strategy across the region.  Read more...
Alcohol and drugs
UK Drink Drive casualties UK Drink-drive fatalities 240 amongst 8,680 all severities  Read more...