The second week of the Festival of Road Safety concludes with two presentations looking at road collision investigations and educating children ahead of the transition to secondary school.
The first, published on the Festival website at 10am, is delivered by Chelsea Hughes, research assistant at Swansea University.
The presentation discusses work on a field trial of a revised version of the Self-Administered Interview for Road Traffic Collisions (the SAI-RTC), a new tool that allows witnesses to road traffic collisions (RTCs) to produce detailed and comprehensive accounts of the collision.
Over a 20-month trial period, officers within the Roads Policing Unit of a Welsh police force were trained to use the SAI-RTC, or they continued to collect witnesses using a standard reporting form.
Researchers compared the outcomes of cases in the two arms of the trial, and also compared the quantity and quality of information that witnesses provided in the SAI-RTC, and in the standard reporting form.
The presentation describes the methods and key findings from the trial, which was funded by the Road Safety Trust.
Friday’s second presentation is from James Parker, the executive officer of the London Road Safety Council (LRSC).
James talks through the ‘It’s a Jungle Out There’ campaign, launched by the organisation earlier this year.
The campaign comprised social media and training resources, aimed at encouraging parents to have a chat about road safety before their children started in Year 7, negotiating a new route to a new school.
Catch up on week two
The 2021 Festival is being organised by Road Safety GB and sponsored by Jenoptik.
In total, week two comprised 12 sessions – all of which are now able to view via the Festival website.
This includes Wednesday’s live workshop, which looked at the issue of private e-scooters and whether they should be legalised?
The workshop was facilitated by Margaret Winchcomb and David Davies (PACTS) – and Jonathan Hodgkinson (Weightmans).
Weeks 3 and 4
The programmes for week 3 and week 4 can be found on the Festival website. Weeks 3 and 4 sessions are subject to final confirmation in terms of dates and timings.
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