Casualty Reduction Safety Engineering Rob Surridge - Head of Profession Road Safety Engineering www.hertsdirect.org
Introduction • What we do and why • What we don’t do www.hertsdirect.org
What others do in terms of Road Safety – Road Safety Education, Training and Publicity – Traffic Law Enforcement – Reactive highway maintenance e.g. Repairing or remedying highway assets (bollards, carriageway defects, flooding etc) www.hertsdirect.org
What the team does • Reduce Personal Injury Collisions • Investigate Hazardous sites • Promote remedial treatments • Road Safety Audits www.hertsdirect.org
Why do we do these things? • Targets – Local Transport Plan – Killed and Seriously Injured < 411 per year – Statutory Duty under the Road Traffic Act www.hertsdirect.org
Hertfordshire data In the last 12 month period there were 2420 Personal Injury Collisions Of which – 2092 on HCC roads – 328 on Highways England www.hertsdirect.org
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Includes collisions on HA network www.hertsdirect.org
Includes collisions on HA network Excludes damage only collisions - multiply dots by 10 to 15 times www.hertsdirect.org
Using the Data to identify locations for investigation • Three-year analysis period • Hazardous sites – identifies clusters of collisions and applies a weighting based on severity www.hertsdirect.org
Collision Analysis • Looking to identify patterns or trends • Evidence led approach • Some locations we can fix • Others we can’t www.hertsdirect.org
Hertsmere Data www.hertsdirect.org
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Types of Schemes delivered • Other schemes delivered recently in the Hertsmere area. – A41 Elstree Hill Roundabout – Hartspring Lane Roundabout – The Avenue Aldenham Road www.hertsdirect.org
Monitoring www.hertsdirect.org
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