Organisation: Road Safety Scotland
Date uploaded: 19th October 2011
Date published/launched: Pre 2009
The main aim of this research was to collate information relating to road accidents on rural roads in Scotland, suggest how it may be applied and provide recommendations for action.
• To highlight the main contributory factors to rural road accidents (i.e. speed, road types, fatigue, driver psychology etc).
• To suggest which factors are particularly likely to affect Scotland’s rural road network.
• To highlight the particular characteristics of people likely to be involved in rural road accidents.
• To highlight successful interventions that have been introduced to reduce rural road accidents throughout the UK, Europe and further afield (i.e. enforcement, road engineering, public education etc).
• To propose short-term initiatives that can be taken to reduce rural road accidents.
• To propose long-term initiatives that can be taken to reduce rural road accidents.
• To provide recommendations to relevant organisations in order to reduce rural road accidents (SRSC, the police, Road Safety Officers etc).
• To highlight gaps in the literature and areas where further research is required.
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