Recommendations - Safe Roads and Roadsides
The following recommendations have been identified through analysis and are presented for consideration:
Education and Awareness
Motorcyclists - Foreign Drivers
Campaign / Material – Distraction
Recommendation 27
- Materials/advertisements should be developed that remind tourists to avoid becoming distracted by scenery and Scottish wildlife. These could be situated within service stations on main routes utilised by tourists including the A82, A9 and the North Coast 500 route.
Signage
Recommendation 27
- A review of the signage on the popular motorcycle routes for foreign riders should be undertaken to ensure it is sufficient. Regular usage should be made of matrix signs to display messages reminding riders to drive on the left. Consideration could be given to displaying this in different languages (e.g. German, Dutch).
Other Road Users
Campaign / Material – Approaching and Moving Off From Junctions
Recommendation 28
- Materials/advertisements should be developed that reiterate the importance (to other road users) of looking properly and judging the speed of motorcycles when approaching and moving off from junctions.
Signage
Recommendation 28
- A review of the signage on the popular motorcycle routes should be undertaken to raise awareness of motorcycles, in particular when approaching and moving off from junctions.
Motorcyclists – Fatigue
Campaign / Material – Fatigue
Recommendation 29
- Appropriate road signs and campaign messages encouraging motorcycle riders to rest when feeling fatigued (particularly in rural areas) may assist in the reduction of fatalities.
Action
Motorcyclists – General
Motorcycles leaving carriageway
Recommendation 30
- Police Scotland liaise with partner agencies, sharing findings of this report where motorcycles involved in fatal collisions have left the carriageway. Partner agencies can access locations and ascertain if the installation of a barrier would be appropriate, or removal of object hit feasible (where appropriate).
Motorcyclists - Prime Markings
PRIME Markings
Recommendation 31
- Police Scotland liaise with partner agencies, to assist in identifying locations on Scotland’s Roads which could assist from the introduction of PRIMEs.
Partner Agencies
Partner Agency Site Visits
Recommendation 32
- Partner agencies to attend sites identified in this report where collisions have occurred within 75 metres of each other and carry out assessment.
Partner Agencies
Early Intervention
Recommendation 33
- Consideration to be given to Early Intervention Programmes for those motorcycle riders with several previous convictions relating to road traffic offences.