On Thursday 23rd February, Parliament held a debate on the second report from the Transport Committee on Road Traffic Law Enforcement. PACTS was asked by Members of Parliament to produce a briefing on the debate.
![Department for Transport Road Safety Newsletter [September 2016.]](https://www.pacts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/iStock_000017369371Medium-copy-720x479.jpg "Department for Transport Road Safety Newsletter [September 2016.]")
The Department for Transport has released their September Road Safety Newsletter. The newsletter summarizes the department’s recent announcements on road safety including proposals to support advanced driver assistance systems and the recent DVSA consultation on changes to the practical driving test. Available here.
Professor Andrew Evans has updated his papers on fatal train accidents in Britain and Europe. ‘Fatal Accidents to Britain’s mainline railways’ updates the author’s previous statistical analyses of fatal train accidents on running lines on the national railway system of Great Britain to the end of 2015, based on fatal accident data over the 47-year period 1967 to 2015. There were no fatal train collisions, derailments or overruns in 2015 for the eighth […]
On the 23rd June, the UK will hold a referendum on the place of the United Kingdom in the European Union. PACTS has created a briefing on UK Road Safety and the role that the European Union plays in road safety. The briefing can be downloaded here.
The Chancellor’s 2016 Budget announced a number of transport safety related policies. These included an insurance premium tax rise, the announcement of a second road investment strategy and the announcement of driverless car trials in the UK. PACTS supplied a briefing to all Members of Parliament on the importance of the announced changes. The PACTS Budget 2016 Briefing can be downloaded here.
