Efforts are being made to breathe new life into joint working and a shared commitment to reducing serious collisions and deaths on Gloucestershire’s roads.
On 2 December, the Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership held a relaunch event, outlining the new ‘strategic approach’ it will be following to achieve safe, secure, social and efficient use of the roads.
Attendees were asked to sign a pledge to support the road safety partnership in their commitment to achieve Vision Zero.
Cllr Dave Norman, Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet member for community safety and chair of the partnership, opened the event.
He said: “We’ve been working behind the scenes getting this partnership together and now we have the great pleasure of launching it here today. We know we need to do more to bring down serious injuries and deaths on our roads and we have to do this together.”
Attendees also heard from Nick Evans, Gloucestershire’s deputy police and crime commissioner.
He said: “We have a lot of work to do, and the tragic incidents we have seen on our roads over the last few weeks bring the reason for that into sharp focus.
“Now that we have re-established the road safety partnership, I hope we’ll be able to drive a concerted effort from statutory agencies and communities alike to educate all road users and encourage behavioural change.
“This won’t happen overnight, but is a long-term commitment to make Gloucestershire’s roads safer.”
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