Safety framework for the strategic road network

In its strategic plan 2010-15, the Agency sets out how it will continue to reduce deaths and serious injuries on our network through on-road systems, targeted improvements to roads, and better provision of information.

This document supports the national strategy, setting out the Highways Agency’s approach for the strategic road network. In support of the localism agenda, the Agency will work closely with partners and safety stakeholders to identify priority road user groups, targeted engineering interventions on specific roads and share best practice and technical expertise with other groups.

Key findings:
• The Agency met its contribution to the national road safety targets in 2010 and continued to achieve the decline in killed and serious casualties on the strategic road network, which has been maintained over the last 10 years.

• In 2010 there were 11,372 road traffic accidents on the Agency’s strategic road network involving 24,142 vehicles and resulting in 17,967 casualties, of which 247
were killed and 1,622 were seriously injured. These 17,967 casualties accounted for 8.6% of all reported road casualties in Great Britain. The provisional estimate of overall casualty rate is 220 per billion vehicle miles, a 4.2% reduction from 2009.