National Highways tackles danger route with speed cut27/01/2025 A top safety expert has praised a £2.1m National Highways scheme to cut collisions on a key route across Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire with lower speed limits and average speed cameras. |
'Special' Charman gets road safety gong15/11/2024 Road Safety Foundation executive director Dr Suzy Charman has been recognised with a major award by a national road safety organisation. |
Councils share £50m for road safety schemes06/04/2023 Ministers have announced 27 local schemes that will share £47.5m road safety cash - a cutback on the 45 schemes floated in last autumn's mini budget, meaning some councils have missed out. |
RSF: ‘Now is the time to invest in safety'15/12/2022 A new report from a leading road safety charity has criticised current methods of appraising transport investment for prioritising quick and convenient car travel and not reflecting 'modern safe and sustainable values'. |
Project Edward launches push for safe speeds15/09/2021 Police forces across the UK have carried out the first ever National Safe Speeds Day to highlight the human cost of excessive speed and encourage compliance with speed limits. |
MRN facing safety scrutiny over poor record07/07/2021 A major road safety charity has called for investment in improving the safety of the Major Road Network to be made a ‘clear and urgent priority’, after revealing that it has a fatal and serious crash rate almost five times that of the strategic road network. |
Comment: 'We can design more forgiving roads'10/05/2021 Dr Suzy Charman, executive director of the Road Safety Foundation, makes the case for safer roads, as well as safer drivers. |
Highways England must ramp up safety spending, RSF says23/07/2020 An independent review of Highways England’s spending on safety has found that it is inadequate to meet its short-term and long-term safety targets. |
Safety schemes are shovel-ready too, says RSF02/07/2020 A leading road safety charity and an insurer have called on ministers to provide new funding to tackle England’s highest risk roads. |
Kate to play Fuller part in RSF success story30/04/2019 Campaigning research charity the Road Safety Foundation (RSF) has appointed its first road safety engineering director. |
Report identifies most improved and high risk roads14/11/2016 Britain’s most improved and high risk roads have been identified in a report carried out by the Road Safety Foundation. |
Two roads highlighted in Road Safety Foundation report25/06/2015 A report carried out by the Road Safety Foundation shows that the A404 in Buckinghamshire is Britain’s most improved road while the A285 in West Sussex is the highest risk road. |
Routine maintenance helps improve road safety05/11/2014 Authorities scheduling low cost safety improvements alongside routine maintenance have helped reduce fatal and serious crashes by 80% on 15 stretches of UK roads according to a report carried out by the Road Safety Foundation. |
Road Safety Foundation: Safety is key on strategic roads08/07/2014 Safety should be at the forefront when it comes to investment in England’s strategic road network, according to a report by the Road Safety Foundation. |
A4128 still the most improved road in the UK19/11/2013 The A4128 in Buckinghamshire has once again been recognised as this year’s most improved road in the UK, according to the ‘Measuring to Manage’ EuroRAP 2013 report produced by the Road Safety Foundation. |
Report calls for action over road safety24/10/2013 The Road Safety Foundation has called on the Government to invest in an effort to make UK roads measurably safer. |
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