Overview

Road Safety Framework: Annual Report 2016

Overview

Scotland's Road Safety Framework to 2020 (the Framework), published in 2009, sets out Scotland's road safety vision, outlining a set of targets and commitments (96 in total) for reducing road deaths and serious injuries to 2020.

The Framework set deliberately challenging road safety targets, with road deaths separated from serious injuries to achieve significant casualty reductions in four distinct areas:

Scottish road safety targets to 2020, with milestones to 2015, compared with average Scottish figures for 2004-08 and latest reported road casualty statistics from 2015

Target

2004-2008 Average

Reported Road Casualties 2015

2015 Milestones

2020 Target

Fatalities

292

168
(down 42%)

204
(30% reduction)

175
(40% reduction)

Serious casualties

2,605

1,596
(down 39%)

1,484
(43% reduction)

1,172
(55% reduction)

Child fatalities

15

71
(down 57%)

10
(35% reduction)

8
(50% reduction)

Serious child casualties

325

139
(down 57%)

163
(50% reduction)

114
(65% reduction)

1 2013-15 average.

To meet these targets, the Framework set out numerous priority areas, each with their own commitments, established via the five road safety E's: engineering, enforcement, education/training, encouragement/leadership and evaluation/research. This ensured the commitments would be both measurable and attainable, and their achievement signifies the extent of Framework delivery.

A Strategic Partnership Board (SPB) was appointed to make all collective decisions on strategic matters, such as identifying and resolving high-level issues. Board members are responsible for monitoring the progress made towards delivery of the identified overarching outcomes, making key decisions on behalf of their respective organisations and ensuring that these are followed through. The Board is supported by the Operational Partnership Group (OPG), which monitors and distils information on progress made by the various road safety partners against agreed indicators. Both groups ensure the Framework follows an evidence based, collaborative approach, with Transport Scotland working alongside local government, emergency services and third sector organisations representing different transport modes.

This Annual Report will focus on the major road safety developments of 2016; particularly the completion of the Framework's Mid-Term Review (the Review), which was designed to assess the progress made to date in delivering the Framework. The Review also identified three key Priority Focus Areas (PFA), and agreed on the approach adopted to ensure delivery of road safety outcomes up to 2020 and beyond. In support of this, the Strategic Delivery Plan (SDP), outlined on page 14, was developed to align road safety partner activity to our casualty reduction targets and to strive for Vision Zero.

Useful links:

www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/274654/0082190.pdf

www.transport.gov.scot/media/1416/ts-road-safety-framework-mid-term-review-march-2016.pdf