ROAD SAFETY IN
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
The South Yorkshire
Safer Roads Partnership Approach
Frances Adams, SY Local Transport Plan Director
Ken Wheat, SY Safer Roads Partnership Manager
South Yorkshire & the Region
In Terms of Casualty Reduction
• Relatively poor performance compared to others in UK in early
2000s led to visit by DfT and SY Road Safety Improvement Plan;
• In UK duty to investigate road traffic collisions and take action rests
with the local highway authorities but little evidence of sub-regional
partnership working;
• Countywide approach and liaison with others with a role to play
needed to be improved;
• SY Casualty Reduction Partnership began in 2006.
Casualty Reduction Partnership Refresh
• South Yorkshire Police as Chair in 2006
• Partnership approach in place but how effective and evidence led?
• Structure, Meetings, Ownership, Roles – unclear
• ETP activity by different Partners uncoordinated
• Casualty reduction targets on track to meet LTP2 targets but not
National Targets based on 1994/1998 average
• How do we improve to maintain progress?
• Safer Roads Partnership Process
• Reinforced – Partnership approach, visibility and commitment
• Restructured – Strategic; Operational; Tactical Levels
• Gold = SRP – aligned SRP to Crime and Disorder Structures
• Silver = Tactical Group – aligned to Crime and Disorder Reduction
Partnership
• Bronze = Delivery of Tactic – Safety Camera Partnership
Integrated Transport
Authority
Direct Reporting & Political Direction
Strategic
Leadership Group
LTP Wider
Contribution
Policy Direction
Safer Roads Finance
Sub-Group
Political
Steer
Safer Roads
Partnership
Planning and
Transportation
Steering Group
GOLD:
STRATEGY
STRUCTURE
Recommendations
Safer Roads
Partnership
Manager
Progress Reporting
Safer Roads Tactical
Group
SILVER:
TACTICAL LEVEL
STRUCTURE
Coordination
Operational Overview
Safety Camera
Group
Education, Training
and Publicity Group
Worst First
Group
Road Safety
Engineering Group
Road Safety
Statistical Group
District Councils
Design and Delivery
Team
BRONZE:
IMPLEMENTATION
STRUCTURE
GOLD: STRATEGY
•
•
•
Reviewing the Road Safety Strategy and approach;
Challenge assumptions and mindsets;
Reviewing and directing resources including prioritisation and targeting;
SILVER: TACTICAL
•
•
•
Development of the delivery and implementation plans for road safety;
Oversee and monitor delivery of projects and schemes;
Make recommendations for developing new interventions;
BRONZE: IMPLEMENTATION
•
•
•
Delivery of individual projects/schemes;
Ensuring key milestones/targets are met;
Providing a ‘project management’ function;
Safer Roads Partnership
• South Yorkshire Police (including Safety Camera
Partnership)
• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Councils
(Senior Offices and Cabinet Member Portfolio Holders)
• Highways Agency (Motorway and Trunk Roads)
• Peak District National Park
• Primary Care Trusts
• Sheffield University
• South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue
• Yorkshire Ambulance Service
LTP
Worst First
Safety
Initiatives
District
Council
Revenue
Budgets
Sponsorship
LTP Local
Safety
Schemes
Income
from speed and
driver courses
LSTF
Police
Safer Roads Activity
How it is all resourced
Fire Service
Safer Roads Partnership - Product
• Incomplete Analytical Profile
• Gold = SRP Strategy not fully informed
• Silver = Tactical Group – Resource targeting not fully
informed causing:•
•
•
•
-
Over focus on location and victim
Imbalanced approach to Education, Engineering and Enforcement
Not best use of resources?
Incomplete predictive capability
Assess Proven Crime Reduction Processes & Products
• Problem Solving Triangle
• Core elements for KSIs
• Data collection
• Data Analysis
• Causation Factors
• Predictive Capability
• Better targeted resourcing
• Leading to Safer Roads
OVER Focus - Victim
• Age profile
• Medical profile
• Family profile
• Lifestyle profile
=
Missed opportunities
Incorrect intervention
Reduced outcome?
OVER Focus – Location
• ‘Its not the trees fault ! ‘
• Incomplete data ..... ‘the 800’
Missed opportunities
=
Incorrect intervention
Reduced outcome?
OVER Focus – Time
• Time (Temporal analysis)
=
Missed opportunities
Incorrect intervention
Reduced outcome?
UNDER Focus – RTC Perpetrators
• Behavioural profiling
• Driver profiling
• Offender Profiling
• Criminal Profiling
=
Missed opportunities
Incorrect intervention
Reduced outcome?
Bringing it All Together
• Balancing the three E’s
• Developed risk matrix for assessment
• Joint Strategic Assessment
• Control Strategy
• Results analysis
• Further CDRP alignment
1800
Target using 94_98 baseline
Target using 01_04 baseline
79 to 2010 Actual
1500
Number of casualties
1200
900
600
300
0
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
Target using 94_98 baseline
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
732
703
673
644
615
586
556
527
498
468
439
727
703
679
654
630
606
582
705
658
626
639
585
530
435
Target using 01_04 baseline
79 to 2010 A ctual
1482
1446
1447
1493
1326
1234
1098
1108
935
1004
1025
1002
909
845
696
715
746
742
731
725
733
686
715
740
748
Thank You
Ken Wheat, email ken.wheat@syltp.org.uk
Frances Adams, email ltpdirector@syltp.org.uk