ROAD SAFETY STRATEGY
2015-2025
CONTENTS
1 Foreword 1
2 Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership
2
LRSP Board Members ....................................................... 2
3 LRSP Mission Statement 3
LRSP Vision ........................................................................ 3
LRSP Priorities
................................................................... 3
4 LRSP Core Objectives 4
Education, Training and Publicity (ETP) .......................... 4
Engineering
......................................................................... 5
Enforcement
....................................................................... 5
Evaluation
........................................................................... 6
5 Delivery Plan 7
6 Outcomes
8
LRSP Core Outcomes ........................................................ 8
LRSP Area Outcomes
........................................................ 9
7 Achievements 11
8 Beyond 2020
12
Sustaining the service.....................................................12
Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership
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1 Foreword
Over the last 15 years road safety services in
Lincolnshire have been provided through the
Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership (LRSP).
During that time great progress has been
made in reducing casualties resulting from
road trafc collisions. The average number
of people killed or seriously injured each year
in the decade before the formation of the
LRSP was 793; last year it was 415. The
number of fatal road casualties has also
reduced signicantly over that period.
This is very welcome news indeed and
everyone associated with the LRSP are
proud of these achievements.
Every road user shares the responsibility of
improving safety in Lincolnshire and we are
committed to using education, engineering
and enforcement tools to work with them to
continually lower the number of road
collisions that result in death and injury.
This document sets out how the LRSP will
continue to serve the people of Lincolnshire by
providing a rst class, evidence based road
safety service extending over the next ten years.
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2 Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership
The Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership was
formed in June 2000 and now comprises the
following organisations:
Lincolnshire Police / Police and Crime
Commissioner
Lincolnshire County Council
Highways England
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue
East Midlands Ambulance Service
The partnership was the rst of its kind in the
Country and co locates forensic collision
investigators and casualty reduction ofcers from
Lincolnshire Police with the County Council’s
Accident Investigation and Road Safety teams to
form a multi-agency centralised road safety unit.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue also have staff
based within the LRSP who co-ordinate all re
and rescue road safety related activity.
Additionally, the deployment and maintenance of
safety cameras is managed within the LRSP.
Consequently, the entire core functions of road
safety, namely engineering, education and
enforcement are coordinated from this centre.
As a Partnership the LRSP must implement
actions that involve working with individuals and
organisations to improve road safety. Some of the
key parties are:
Schools, academies, colleges and universities
Road Safety organisations and groups (IAM,
RoSPA, Brake)
Cycling and walking groups
NHS
Employers
Military camps
Motoring organisations / road users
LRSP Board Members
The LRSP is accountable to the Strategic Board
which meets quarterly. The current board
members are:
DCC Heather Roach (Chair) Lincolnshire Police
Malcolm Burch Chief Executive Ofce of the
Police and Crime Commissioner
Executive Councillor Richard Davies –
Highways Transport and IT. LCC
Councillor Michael Brookes Lincolnshire
County Council
Superintendent Mark Housely Assistant
Director LCC for Safer Communities
Paul Little Network Manager - North LCC
John Cook - Area Manager Prevention and
Protection – Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue
Councillor Nev Jackson Lincolnshire County
Council
Nicholas Sentance – East Midlands
Ambulance Service
Martin Seldon – Asset Manager Highways
England
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3 LRSP Mission Statement
LRSP Vision
To make signicant year on year reductions in
those killed or injured on Lincolnshires roads
through a sustainable, co-located road safety
partnership delivering targeted interventions
focussed on education, engineering, and
enforcement.
LRSP Priorities
Our priorities are reviewed annually following
analysis of collision trends and causation factors.
The outcomes of this analysis are reected in a
yearly Delivery Plan which sets our priorities for
that year.
Making Lincolnshires roads safer for all
Our current priorities are:
Young drivers (17 years to 24 years)
Mature driver (60years +)
Two Wheel Motor Vehicle Users
Pedal Cyclists
Pedestrians
Business users
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4 LRSP Core Objectives
Our overall objectives are to achieve the following
improvements by 2020:
A 20% reduction in the number of killed or
seriously injured road casualties from an
average annual number of 457 (in 2010 –
2012) to no more than 367.
A 20% reduction in the number of children
killed or seriously injured road casualties from
an average number of 27(in 2010 2012) to
no more than 22.
Education, Training and Publicity
(ETP)
Working with partners and communities we will
proactively target those most at risk on
Lincolnshire’s roads; we will employ creative and
innovative solutions to ensure our engagement is
effective and demonstrates value for money; we
will work to inuence and change the behaviour
of poor road users through comprehensive
education programmes.
ETP Objectives
Continue to deliver core pedestrian training to
schools on a priority ranked basis.
Participate in the schools engagement and
education project to capture education provided
for children and parents in respect of road safety,
substance misuse, crime, arson, anti-social
behaviour, domestic abuse, Risk management,
healthy lifestyles and many more areas.
Deliver diversionary training courses to drivers
and riders as an alternative to prosecution.
These include Speed Awareness Workshops,
RIDE, What’s Driving Us?, Driving for Change, Your
Belt, Your Life and referrals made as part of the
National Driver Alertness Course (NDAC).
Provide training and support to the riders of
two wheel motor vehicles (TWMV) by
continuing to deliver Bikesafe and
Performance Plus.
Develop and implement a training scheme for
the riders of TWMV up to 125cc.
Deliver the 2Fast 2Soon, Pass Plus +, crash
car simulator, skid car and, pre and post driver
training programmes focussed on the 17 to 24
year olds vulnerable road user group.
Deliver, monitor and further develop the
mature drivers training programme.
Develop innovative approaches to casualty
reduction from our current priorities.
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Develop bespoke courses aimed at companies
to reduce collisions involving business drivers.
Deliver corporate driving events to improve the
driving skills of business drivers.
Attend county and local events focussing on
priority issues and user groups.
Develop and implement countywide media
campaigns focussing on priority issues and
user groups.
Maximise the use of social media.
Continue to promote and develop the
Community Speed Watch programme,
increasing the opportunity for parishes to help
reduce speeding and the negative effects
associated with it.
Continue to run and manage School Crossing
Patrol facilities across the County.
Engineering
We will employ our specialist knowledge and
skills to maximise our resources for the benet
of Lincolnshire’s road users; we will seek,
through an evidenced approach, to eradicate
repeat accident locations and to proactively
design-in safe road systems
Engineering Objectives
Identify and implement an annual programme
of engineering safety schemes as funding
allows.
Complete safety audits on all modications to
the highway network in accordance with LCC
policy. Safety Audit recommendations create a
safer highway network for people to travel.
Maintain and validate a joint collision
database providing an evidence based
approach to analysing and developing road
safety initiatives.
Identify through “wet skidding” collisions, sites
where surface friction may be deteriorating to
enable remedial measures to be implemented
quicker than identied by routine maintenance
inspections.
Identify hazards on popular motorcycle routes
using motorcycle friendly” signage including
the installation of the regional “Shiny Side Up”
awareness campaign during the motorcycle
season.
Work with police forensic collision
investigation team to promote / recommend
highway improvements identied from fatal
collision investigations.
Enforcement
LRSP will, in an ethical and fair way, enforce road
safety legislation with a focus on the “fatal four”;
speeding, drink driving, use of mobile phones,
and seat belts. We will focus our enforcement on
locations that present signicant risk to our
public and areas which cause concern to our
community.
Enforcement Objectives
Focus resources on specic areas, key events
and individuals based on current relevant
data.
Advise on collision trends and locations where
excessive speed has been monitored to Police
tasking meetings. Police road safety operations
will be reported in the Delivery plan.
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All xed camera sites will be assessed and a
programme to replace all wet lm technology
with digital equipment will be introduced over
the next three years.
Mobile cameras will be used at emerging
casualty sites and 75% of time spent on
enforcement by speed reduction ofcers will
be directed towards mobile camera activity.
Work with enforcement colleagues to
complete targeted enforcement campaigns
aimed at specic user groups including
motorcycle, HGV and foreign vehicles where
appropriate.
Increase enforcement aimed at drink driving,
use of mobile phones, and non-wearing of seat
belts.
Evaluation
LRSP will continually improve and develop our
intelligence and evidence based approach to
road safety ensuring that resources are
effectively deployed. We will aim to deliver
“value for money” for the people of Lincolnshire
at all times.
Objectives
Complete annual analysis of the effectiveness
of xed, mobile and average camera sites
determining the average annual average
collision reductions, casualties saved and the
associated economic benets.
Complete annual analysis of the effectiveness
of local safety schemes determining the rst
year rate of return (FYRR), casualties saved
and the associated economic benets.
Proactively monitor and identify trends and
causations in collisions and casualties to all
user groups and report to AIP manager on
quarterly basis.
Work with LRSP managers to devise and
implement robust evaluation schemes
wherever possible focussing on outcomes to
ensure all road safety interventions is as
effective as possible.
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5 Delivery Plan
The LRSP will carry out an ongoing cycle of:
ANALYSE
REVIEW
PLAN
DO
OUTCOMES
In light of its review the LRSP will determine its
priorities each year having regard to analysis of
the collision database. It will develop an annual
Delivery Plan to be approved by the LRSP
Strategic Board. The Delivery plan will set out the
key outcomes, tasks necessary to achieve those
outcomes and identify key risks.
The LRSP Strategic Board will monitor and review
progress against the Delivery Plan at their
quarterly meetings.
The current Delivery Plan forms Appendix A of this
document.
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6 Outcomes
Area Outcome Due Date
Core A 20% reduction in the number of killed or seriously injured road casualties
from an average annual number of 457 (in 2010 - 2012) to no more than 367
2020
Core A 20% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured road
casualties from an average number of 27 (in 2010 - 2012) to no more than 22
2020
Core Year on year reductions in the numbers of riders of two-wheeled motor
vehicles who are killed orseriously injured (2015: Target 88)
Annual
Core Year on year reductions in collisions involving a driver aged 17 - 24 years
resulting in killed or serious injury (2015: Target 105)
Annual
Core Year on year reductions in collisions involving a driver aged 60 years or over
resulting in killed or serious injury (2015: Target 92)
Annual
Core Year on year reductions in the number of cyclists being killed or seriously
injured (2015: Target 38)
Annual
Core Year on year reductions in the number of pedestrians being killed or seriously
injured (2015: Target 52)
Annual
LRSP Core Outcomes
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Area Outcome Due Date
ETP Continue to deliver National Speed Awareness Courses to in excess of
12,000 clients per annum
Annual
ETP Continue to deliver What’s Driving Us” attitudinal course to in excess of
1,300 clients per annum
Annual
ETP Continue to deliver National Driver Alertness Course to in excess of 350
clients per annum
Annual
ETP Continue to deliver National RIDE motorcycle programme Annual
ETP Deliver suite of road safety education programmes to 100% of highest
priority schools and 50% of medium priority schools within the primary
age group
Annual
ETP Deliver suite of road safety education programmes to 100% of highest
priority schools and 50% of medium priority schools within the
secondary age group
Annual
ETP Deliver 2 Fast 2 Soon programme to 40 schools across the county Annual
ETP Deliver 10 courses per year of the Pass Plus + Programme Annual
ETP Delivery of 12 courses per year of Bike Safe Annual
ETP Deliver at least two Performance Plus courses per annum Annual
ETP Development of a bespoke Programme for motorcycle riders up to
125cc
Annual
ETP Deliver the “Belt Up” programme to 10 schools Annual
ETP Deliver a bespoke “Managing Occupational Road Risk” aimed at
business drivers (demand led)
Annual
ETP Delivery of 10 Mature Driver Programme courses per year Annual
ETP Delivery of the Young Passenger Awareness to 6000 students per
annual
Annual
ETP Deliver the pre-drive training to 40 students per annum Annual
LRSP Area Outcomes
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Area Outcome Due Date
ETP Delivery of skid training to 90 students per annum Annual
ETP Delivery of post driving courses for young drivers - pilot course
commences in April 2015
Annual
ETP Delivery of the corporate team building course which focuses on driving
skills (demand led)
Annual
Engineering Completion of a local safety scheme programme justied by a positive
rst year rate of return
Annual
Engineering Identity “wet skidding” collision sites to expedite intervention Annual
Engineering Carry out safety audits on all modications to the highway network as
requested by Highways or Private Developers
Annual
Engineering Monitoring of all sites for road user classes of design an dconstruction
of highway improvement schemes
Annual
Engineering Arrange remedial measures to highway identied during fatal collision
investigation
Annual
Enforcement Maintain an annual average reduction of greater than 60% KSI
collisions by deployment of xed speed cameras
Annual
Enforcement Maintain an annual average reduction of greater than 40% KSI
collisions by the deployment of mobile speed cameras
Annual
Enforcement Reduce KSIs in respect of TWMV through comprehensive targeted
seasonal campaign and monitor hours enforced an offences recorded
Annual
Enforcement Reduce fatal four offences and reduce KSI casualties through the
enforcement campaign Op Blackwater and Falcon. Monitor hours
enforced and offences recorded
Annual
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7 Achievements
The LRSP has an excellent record of
achievement of which we are proud, the list
below sets out some of our successes.
Nevertheless we remain committed to
improving our service and reducing road
casualties in Lincolnshire.
External Funding obtained
2000:
Invest to Save £400k
2001: Children’s Fund £112k
2005: Road Safety Grant £220k
2008: PSA Reward funding £325k
2008: Rural Demonstration Project £2M
Successes
2005:
Prince Michael of Kent International
Road Safety Award for Education and
Training – Regional Camera partnership
- Approach to anti speeds.
2006: Awarded Beacon Status for Road Safety
Services.
2007:
Achieved stretched PSA casualty
reduction targets.
2008:
Invited to participate in Rural
Demonstration Project.
2010:
Prince Michael of Kent International
Road Safety Award for Education and
Training – 2 Fast 2 Soon.
2010: Better Governments ten year KSI
casualty reduction targets by 1068.
2010:
Better Governments ten year KSI
casualty targets reduction targets for
children by 200.
2013:
36 fatal casualties - lowest recorded.
2013: Accredited DSA Training Provider
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8 Beyond 2020
The LRSP Strategic Board monitors outcomes
against targets quarterly. Outcomes have been
set to 2020 and are not expected to change.
New measures beyond 2020 will be agreed with
the LRSP in light of national guidance and
performance achieved.
The LRSP has representation on various
partnership boards throughout the county,
including local safeguarding boards and will
continue to provide updates for the Community
Safety Partnership. It will constantly look to
identify areas where joint working would be
appropriate and lead to efciencies in service
delivery.
Sustaining the service
During August and September 2014 a detailed
review of the LRSP was undertaken and has
made recommendations around the following:
Resource establishment within the LRSP
Location
Level of assets, in particular vehicle eet
Current partners and whether there are
opportunities to develop different
relationships to enhance the current
partnership
Identication of good practice which can be
developed within the LRSP
The LRSP has also produced a three year
business plan 2015/2016 2017/ 2018 that has
identied potential funding streams and
maximises the number of educational courses
that are offered to offending motorists as an
alternative to prosecution.
The current safety camera business plan uses
surplus income to fund the entire safety camera
operations. However, the new business plan will
make provision to recover partner contributions
to LRSP overhead costs so that they are no longer
required from the commencement of the nancial
year 2015/16
Speed Awareness Workshops provide by far the
greatest number of clients. The vast majority are
identied by xed, mobile and average camera
enforcement technology. Currently there are 50
xed, 75 mobile and one average speed camera
in Lincolnshire. As wet lm technology reaches
the end of its life only upgraded cameras will be
operational. Failing to upgrade the cameras will
have a signicant adverse impact on our ability to
protect the public and will certainly reduce the
number of motorists who can be offered an
educational alternative to paying a ne and
receiving penalty points. Consequently, the new
business model will make provision to replace all
cameras over the course of time.