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Speaker presentations The REVIVE project – learning from post-crash response practice across Europe Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director, European Transport Safety Council Post Crash Response Professor Tim Nutbeam, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Plymouth University Hospitals, presentation notes are here Let’s be clear – collaboration in incident management Stephen Bird, Senior Advisor, Incident Management Requirements, Highways England The Road Collision Investigation Project Elizabeth Box, Head of Research, RAC Foundation Road Accident In Depth Studies […]
The Department for Transport published the detailed 2018 road casualty data for Great Britain on 27th September 2019. This showed: 1,784 people died in road collisions – a 1% decline on the previous year – continuing the “plateau” in GB road deaths since 2010. 25,511 seriously injured casualties reported. Due to changes in recording methods, comparisons with previous years may be misleading for seriously injured casualty numbers.* 133,112 slightly injured […]
Regulating drug driving to protect all road users Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London Tuesday 22 October 9:30 – 13:00 PACTS and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) will hold a seminar on drug driving on 22 October in London. Participation is free, however places are limited. Full details and agenda available here.
PACTS is pleased to publish (19th September 2019) What Does My Car Do? by Dr Shaun Helman, Chief Scientist at TRL, and Oliver Carsten, Professor of Transport Safety, University of Leeds. The report conclude that, “The lack of full standardisation of vehicle controls and the driver interface with driver assistance systems means there is often a ‘human factors’ deficit in which drivers are forced to use systems they do not necessarily […]
In May 2019, PACTS was awarded a grant from GEM Road Safety Charity to undertake research into roads policing and its contribution to road safety. AlcoSense has also agreed to contribute to the project. Context Road deaths in the UK have not declined since 2010. During this period, levels of roads policing (officer numbers, enforcement activity etc.) have declined substantially– with the exception of automatic speed cameras. In response to […]
