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 […]
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 […]
Seventy-four actions to improve road safety have been published as part of the Government’s 2019 Road Safety Statement. The full Statement, which includes all 74 actions, can be found here. Initial comment by PACTS is here: 2019 Road Safety Statement – PACTS comment Increased penalties for failing to wear a seat belt is one of these measures, and one which PACTS recommended in Seat Belts: The Forgotten Road Safety Priority which was […]
PACTS conference Post Crash Response Thursday 17th October 2019 Royal College of Anaesthetists, London Book your place Download Programme The Safe System approach to road safety aims to minimise road deaths and life-changing injuries rather than to prevent all crashes. The effectiveness of post-crash response is therefore a crucial part of the system. This conference will feature practitioners, politicians and researchers involved in specifying and delivering these vital services. It will present […]
