Government launches two new
road safety websites
The Government has launched two new road safety websites over recent weeks - the Road Safety Comparison site and the Road Safety Observatory.The Road Safety Comparison site will help the public and road safety professionals compare the road safety performance of local authorities.The Road Safety Observatory provides a resource for professionals and practitioners, giving them access to valuable road safety research presented in a simplified manner.Speaking about the new sites, the Road Safety Minister Stephen Hammond said: “The Road Safety Comparison site makes clear to the public, local authorities and other partners how a local highway authority is performing by putting collision and casualty numbers into context.“By setting those numbers against population, traffic levels, road length and authority spend we have produced a set of indicators showing performance over the last seven years and where that authority stands against others.“The site also provides a mapping facility that can be filtered so that a user can, for example, see how many cyclists or children have been involved in collisions on a particular road.”He added: “The Road Safety Observatory provides a resource for professionals and practitioners, giving them the access to empirical road safety research by taking that research and summarising it in plain English.”The Road Safety Observatory has been part funded by the Department for Transport and the project run by a board drawn from various road safety bodies including RoadSafe, the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS), the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and the RAC Foundation.Other organisations include the Association of Directors for the Environment, Planning and Transport (ADEPT), Road Safety GB, the South West Public Health Observatory, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Automobile Association.
