Pandemic continues to impact road safety statistics

Sponsors Jenoptik take centre stage on the final day of the 2021 Festival – with a short video looking how average speed cameras have led to a ‘dramatic improvement in road safety’ on a cluster of roads in Wales.

Cycling coach Simon Storey has set up a ‘Bicycle Bus’ to encourage pupils to cycle to three schools in the town of Whitnash in south Warwickshire.

Setting targets to reduce deaths and serious injuries for drivers aged over 70 years by 50% by 2030 – and a longer-term aspiration for zero deaths among this age group by 2050 – is a key recommendation in a new report authored by a team of older driver experts.

Festival soundbite: “When you talk to partnerships there is a blame culture that seeps through – it is always someone else’s fault.”

A free-to-attend webinar to be held next week will look at roles and responsibilities with regard to managing work-related road safety risk.