Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
Date of Publication: December 2022
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre: 31 January 2023
This report is the first of what the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) intends to be an annual assessment of National Highways’ safety performance on the strategic road network (SRN), including the operation and effectiveness of the end-to-end safety system on smart motorways.
The report finds that National Highways appears to be on course to achieve its key safety target to halve the number of people killed or seriously injured on the strategic road network by 2025, compared to a 2005-2009 baseline.
However, in the report the ORR notes that traffic across 2021 as a whole was still below pre-pandemic levels, and says there is a risk that the number of casualties could increase if traffic levels rose further in 2022.
The report says National Highways will need to maintain its strong focus on safety and is developing an action plan aligned to its 2025 target, which is expected to be published in March 2023.
The ORR says it will scrutinise this plan ‘to assure ourselves that it is robust, deliverable and sets out how the company will achieve its target’.
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