Road Safety Resource

The Project

The Regional Road Safety Monitoring Resource is a two-year project running from April 2007 to March 2009.

The project is designed to meet the demand in the North East for improved analysis of road safety casualty statistics to support education, training and publicity (ETP) activities with a region-wide focus. The project will carry out analysis targeting issues of concern, facilitating programme planning and supplying information to inform the ETP. This will support the aims of the project stakeholders and will enhance the stakeholders' roles of activity coordination and information sharing and provide added value through a single focus for the analysis of safety information at a regional level. It thereby supports best practice and continued improvement across the North East.

A wide range of regional stakeholders are engaged in the project including local authorities, police forces, fire & rescue services, academics and road safety professionals through the NE Regional Road Safety Forum and NE LARSOA group.

Project members will attend the Regional Road Safety Forum, regional LARSOA and other Road Safety meetings to share information with user groups. This will allow the project to remain user driven.

Working practice

The project will operate as a research project. Progress reports and updates will be produced. It is likely that there will be interest from sub regional organisations, who may make adhoc enquiries for information. In the first instance the project team will refer such requests to the local analytical team dealing with each force area. There is no intention that the project should replace or undermine local resources.

Ongoing project review will inform the discussion about whether the output is useful and the resource one which might benefit from further funding from regional sources.

Scope of the Regional Road Safety Project

The project will develop a resource that ensures that regional ETP activities are strongly supported. The project will endeavour to ensure that data guides the structure of the regional programme by identifying issues and supporting the programme by providing packages of detailed and targeted analysis.

Preliminary work will include:

  • A review of base data for the region.
  • Standardised reporting frameworks will be agreed for headline data e.g. total number of accidents, total numbers of KSI, etc. Reporting queries will be written in SQL within the AccsMap systems allowing clarity for other analysts.
  • Production of regional maps to demonstrate issues identified in the dataset.

Project Outputs

Initial analytical outputs to inform Calendar 2008/9 and support LAA reporting will include:

  • KSIs
  • Slights
  • Drivers (such as people aged 17-24)
  • Pedestrians
  • Pedal cycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Good Vehicles
  • Other products will include:
  • Website where data will be posted including a suite of regional maps and supporting data
  • Workshop / sharing best practice event
  • Project evaluation report based on evaluation framework and comments from stakeholders 

Steering Group Members

A steering group made up of representatives from Police, Fire & Safety, Local Authority and Camera Safety Partnerships from across the region has been convened.

Alex Bennett - Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Northumberland
Alan Kennedy - Road Safety Section Manager, Durham
Chris Cole - Camera Enforcement Unit, Cleveland
Paul Watson - Road Safety Unit, Hartlepool Borough Council
Ray King - Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative
Caroline Shield -Transport Policy and Research, Gateshead Council.