Organisation: Transport Scotland
Date uploaded: 19th April 2016
Date published/launched: March 2016
on the trunk road network.
The first Strategic Road Safety Plan was published in 2007 and supported delivery of the Road Safety Framework. The current Framework has reached the mid-point of its 10 year period and has been reviewed in its own right, and Transport Scotland has taken the opportunity to update the Road Safety Plan and refocus its work on further reducing the numbers of accidents and casualties on the Trunk Road network.
The refreshed Plan reinforces the use of a Safe System approach within the road
transport system. This approach is centred around the premise that death and injury
is unacceptable and are avoidable.
The 2007 Strategic Road Safety Plan encompassed many of the elements of the Safe System approach. This refresh builds upon that approach to more clearly address risk mitigation and focus particular efforts on addressing the safety of vulnerable road users.
It includes an Action Plan aligned with the five pillars of the Safe System approach and identifies how the work of Transport Scotland’s Strategic Road Safety Unit will contribute to the Government’s casualty reduction targets for 2020.
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