Wrexham

Heddlu Gogledd Cymru

North Wales Police

Agenda

Casualty Reduction - Role of the Local Authority DfT targets Beyond 2010 Current performance

NWP Wrexham

Child Motorcycle Pedestrian Cyclist Young Drivers

Our Strategy Compliance Rates Corporate Manslaughter Act Your Strategy

Section 39 Road Traffic Act 1988

Every Highway Authority within England and Wales has a Statutory Duty under ‘section 39’ of the ‘Road Traffic Act 1988’ to promote road safety.

Through a combination of Engineering, Education, Enforcement and Encouragement, local authorities:

must prepare and carry out programmes of measures

to promote road safety, and

must carry out studies into accidents arising from the use of vehicles on their roads.

Section 39 Road Traffic Act 1988

(2) Each local authority must prepare and carry out a programme of measures designed to promote road safety and may make contributions towards the cost of measures for promoting road safety taken by other authorities or bodies.

Section 39 Road Traffic Act 1988

(3)in pursuance of their duty under that subsection each local authority—

(a) must carry out studies into accidents arising out of the use of vehicles on roads or parts of roads, other than trunk roads, within their area,

(b) must, in the light of those studies, take such measures as appear to the authority to be appropriate to prevent such accidents, including:

the dissemination of information and advice relating to the use of roads the giving of practical training to road users or any class or description

of road users, the construction, improvement, maintenance or repair of roads for which

they are the highway authority and other measures taken in the exercise of their powers for controlling,

protecting or assisting the movement of traffic on roads,

(c) in constructing new roads, must take such measures as appear to the authority to be appropriate to reduce the possibilities of such accidents when the roads come into use.

Changing Lanes –Audit Commission 2007

Local authorities should:

Review their progress against DfT casualty reduction targets, taking any action needed to achieve them

Review local arrangements for taking a strategic approach to road safety, bearing in mind the imminent changes to the funding of safety camera partnerships (SCPs) and the increasing role for local strategic partnerships (LSPs)

Work with partners to improve practice, particularly targeting at-risk groups and localities, and building on existing relationships within SCPs.

Raise awareness among local secondary schools of road safety issues for pupils, and the resources available to them.

Ensure local councillors have information and other support to help them engage local people.

Changing Lanes –Audit Commission 2007

Police forces should:

Work in partnership with relevant local authorities to review arrangements for taking a strategic approach to road safety and improve practice

Improve the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of STATS 19 data, by applying the same management processes that are applied to crime data.

DfT Targets

In March 2000 the Government published its new Road Safety Strategy entitled ‘Tomorrow’s Roads: Safer for Everyone’.

This document sets out challenging new road safety strategies and casualty reduction targets to be reached by 2010, (based on the average for 1994 to 1998), including:-

a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents;

a 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured in road accidents;

a 10% reduction in the rate of slight injuries

Beyond 2010

A holisitic approach, involving the widest range of relevant stakeholders, should underpin road safety strategy beyond 2010

UK population is ageing and likely to keep driving further, in larger numbers and for longer than previous generations

Transport policy will continue to support economic growth so there is a need to improve work related safety

There is still a disproportionately high number of young drivers who kill and seriously injure themselves and other road users. Young people’s attitude towards driving are a significant contributory factor to their high casualty rate.

DfT – Manual of Streets – implementation of 20mph sites

Current Performance

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40% national target

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WrexhamKilled and Seriously Injured Casualties

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75

1994-1998 Average

Casualties

61% reduction achieved by

Oct 07

November ‘07

Month YTD Last YTD

Fatal 0 0 0

Serious 1 1 3

Slight 2 24 41

All Casualties 3 25 44

Child Casualties

Motorcyclist

November ‘07

Month YTD Last YTD

Fatal 0 2 0

Serious 0 4 8

Slight 1 12 21

All Casualties 1 18 29

Pedal Cyclist

November ‘07

Month YTD Last YTD

Fatal 0 0 0

Serious 0 2 0

Slight 2 15 21

All Casualties 2 17 21

Pedestrian

November ‘07

Month YTD Last YTD

Fatal 0 0 0Serious 2 4 6

Slight 3 22 33

All Casualties 5 26 39

Young Drivers

Young Drivers

Compliance Rates

Sample

July

Compliance

October Compliance

Seatbelts

500

94.61% 94.92%

Rear Seatbelts

500

94.44% 89.36%

Mobile Phones 500

98.6% 97.8%

Our Strategy

We will meet or better the RCR 2010 casualty reduction targets by adopting the 6 E’s:

Education

Engagement

Enforcement

Evaluation

Engineering

Extricate & Evacuate

Our Strategy

Education: We will exploit opportunities to educate road users, improve driving, explain and publicise our activity, prioritising vulnerable groups identified through data analysis.

Engagement: Identify vulnerable road user groups and engage with them to reduce the likelihood of them becoming road casualties.

Enforcement: O.S.D. enforcement will focus upon the five most significant dimensions of unlawful, disorderly and dangerous vehicle use, which contribute to avoidable deaths and injury by making collisions more likely, and by making the resultant injuries worse, namely:

Driving whilst impaired through drugs or alcohol; Speeding; Failure to use seat belts; Dangerous driving; Use of mobile phone whilst driving

Our Strategy

Evaluation: Speed, mobile phone and seatbelt enforcement activities will be evaluated through quarterly surveys to establish whether there has been an increase in compliance. We will ensure that deployment and roads policing activity are based on accurate and timely intelligence by adoption of the National Intelligence Model (NIM). We will constantly evaluate the impact of our activities by analysing collision data.

Engineering: By working in partnership with local authorities, we will seek engineering solutions to identified collision cluster sites, designating priority areas as red routes.

Extricate & Evacuate: By working in partnership with other Emergency Services we will reduce the time taken to extricate and evacuate casualties to Hospital. The Fire and Rescue Service will increase the extrication capability of their staff and we will continue to support the Air Ambulance by offering paramedic capability for helicopter emergency medical services.

The Corporate Manslaughter Act 2006

The New Offence

An organisation is guilty of an offence of Corporate Manslaughter if the way in which any of its activities are managed or organised by its senior managers:

a) Causes a person’s death and

b) Amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed by the organisation to the deceased.

Early Interpretation

Prosecutions under the new legislation will be much easier and there will be many successful prosecutions – all the threshold criteria have been lowered

Prosecutions will gather evidence from all aspects of the company’s collective attitude towards health and safety and/or towards an area of business.

Evidence of previous similar failings that didn’t result in injury will be potent evidence to support a conviction.

Having the best policies and documented procedures will not prevent prosecution.

A number of individuals will be identified and the prosecution will be collective – this will include those at director level down to the lowest managers .

It will not be possible to delegate responsibility down to a low level operative to avoid prosecution.

Vulnerability and Exposure

• A prosecution will look at the command chain to determine who should be prosecuted.

• It will centre on a key question – how was the error allowed to happen?

• It will ask – is that trend happening now and/or has it been happening in the past.

• A key question will be were we aware of the problem and should something have been done about it.

Your Strategy

Stakeholders

Policies

Initiatives (Education, Publicity,Training.)

Targets

Performance Monitoring