Road Safety
Each year thousands of people are killed, seriously injured or sustain slight injuries on Britain's roads. In 2000, the Government set targets to reduce the number of people killed, seriously injured or sustaining slight injuries, using the comparison of the 1994 - 1998 statistics; the targets are as follows.
By 2010 the Government has said that there should be:
- a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured in road collisions.
- a 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured in road collisions
- a 10% reduction in the slight casualty rate.
Liverpool City Council is working towards meeting these targets by bringing in new measures to educate people on how to use the roads safely. These include Education, Training and Publicity schemes, Neighbourhood Road Safety Programmes and the CrossRight pedestrian training scheme for children.
Liverpool City Council also aim to make the roads safer by installing traffic calming and anti-skid road surfaces and making improvements to junctions. These are known as Local Road Safety Schemes. Visit the Traffic Calming page for more information on how we prioritise these schemes