Transcript STRATEGY - OUTLINE

Scottish Road Safety
Strategy – an overview
Jill Mulholland
Road Safety Team
Transport Directorate
Scottish Government
Time Line
• 26 Sep 2007 - Internal Steering Group
Ministerial
• 27 Nov 2007 - Expert Panel
• 1 Feb-25 Apr - Public Consultation Exercise
(94 responses) - Report 30 June 2008
• Jun-Sep 2008 - Young People Focus Groups
- Report 9 October 2008
• Jul-Nov 2008 - Internal Draft
• TBC - Sign off
• TBC - Launch
Summary of Consultation Responses (1)
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Continuing clear national targets
Young drivers
Speeding
Rural road risk
Drink Driving
Develop/facilitate a joined up multi
agency approach
Summary of Consultation Responses (2)
• Introduce/Encourage Post Test Driver Education
• Address Driver Responsibilities/attitudes/behaviour
• Reduce Drink Drive limit
• Increase visibility of Police and ensure greater
consistency of penalties
• Consider safety of routes rather than hotspots
• Ensure clear and consistent Signage, good road
surfacing and general maintenance of roads
Young Peoples’ Focus Groups - Key Findings
• Drink Driving seen as unacceptable but most
had been in a car with a driver who was over
the limit
• Belief that friends won’t put them in danger
• Speeding very common – think they can
handle it
• Negative influences – friends, music
• Strongly against restrictions
Purpose of the Strategy
• An improving picture but a need to reduce
the unacceptably high risk of death and
injury on our roads compared to other areas
of day to day life.
• To set a high level plan for road safety in
Scotland for the next ten years
• To be an accessible and informative
document for the Public
Strategic Vision
• Everyone will take responsibility to Go
Safe on Scotland’s Roads.
• A continuing reduction in road deaths
and serious injuries until we reach our
shared goal of no deaths on our roads.
TARGETS
• Close alignment to new GB targets but
set at a Scottish level
• Possibles:
– Fatalities target
– Killed and seriously injured target
– Child fatalities target
– Child killed and seriously injured
target
Aims
• Help join up the strands of road safety
delivery
• Reinforce the message of responsibility
of road users
• Reduce the tolerance of risk on our
roads
• Encourage a Drive for Life culture
• Uphold the rights of road users to
expect safer travel
Costs/Benefits
• £1 million new allocation over SR
period.
• Need to ensure budgets work together
and are intelligently targeted.
• Important to view costs against cost of
road incidents, injuries and deaths.
Strategy Outline
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Working Together for Safer Roads
Being Responsible on our Roads
Reducing Risk on our Roads
Driving for Life
Designing for Human Error on our
Roads
Content
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Issue
What we do now
What we want to do next
Actions
Actions
• Ordered under headings in strategy
outline
• Still have the 3 Es plus 2 more –
Encouragement and Evaluation
• Divided into
– Short (one to two years)
– Medium (two to five years)
– Long (five to ten years)
Delivery
• Range of organisations with roles to
play.
• Not only a strategy applying to Scottish
Government.
• Joint Working critical to success –
opportunity to have a Shared Vision.
Under Consideration
• What will really give the strategy the
most impact?
– A lot of apparent consensus in road safety but
what actions/interventions will make the most
difference in the Scottish Strategy?
– Lessons from other strategies – avoid having too
many actions and too little control.