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Casualty Reduction
Safety Engineering
Rob Surridge - Head of Profession Road Safety Engineering
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Introduction
- What we do and why
- What we don’t do
Casualty Reduction Safety Engineering Rob Surridge - Head of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Casualty Reduction Safety Engineering Rob Surridge - Head of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Casualty Reduction Safety Engineering Rob Surridge - Head of Profession Road Safety Engineering www.hertsdirect.org Introduction What we do and why What we dont do www.hertsdirect.org What others do in terms of Road Safety
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What others do in terms of Road Safety
– Road Safety Education, Training and Publicity – Traffic Law Enforcement – Reactive highway maintenance e.g. Repairing or remedying highway assets (bollards, carriageway defects, flooding etc)
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What the team does
- Reduce Personal Injury Collisions
- Investigate Hazardous sites
- Promote remedial treatments
- Road Safety Audits
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Why do we do these things?
- Targets
– Local Transport Plan – Killed and Seriously Injured < 411 per year – Statutory Duty under the Road Traffic Act
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Hertfordshire data
In the last 12 month period there were 2420 Personal Injury Collisions Of which – 2092 on HCC roads – 328 on Highways England
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Includes collisions on HA network
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Includes collisions on HA network Excludes damage only collisions
- multiply dots by 10 to 15 times
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Using the Data to identify locations for investigation
- Three-year analysis period
- Hazardous sites – identifies clusters of
collisions and applies a weighting based on severity
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Collision Analysis
- Looking to identify patterns or trends
- Evidence led approach
- Some locations we can fix
- Others we can’t
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Hertsmere Data
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Types of Schemes delivered
- Other schemes delivered recently in the
Hertsmere area. – A41 Elstree Hill Roundabout – Hartspring Lane Roundabout – The Avenue Aldenham Road
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