Processes and Problems:
Developing A Road Safety Strategy for
Lincolnshire
Naomi Cook
Rural Demonstration Project Co-ordinator,
Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership
(LRSP)
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
• Casualties on the rural road network are
declining at slower rate than on urban roads
• First steps in the strategy development involved
group discussions to form a list of possible road
safety issues in the County
• List was based on previous experience,
anecdotal evidence and knowledge of the
collisions history in Lincolnshire
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
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Key points and problems to overcome:
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Interrogation of the collision database illustrated
that some issues were not as prevalent are we
first thought:
• The A15 had been trunk road until 2002. At
that time it had a sustained history of collisions
involving vehicles leaving the carriageway
• Collision data from the latest 5 year period
showed this was no longer the case
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
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Key points and problems to overcome:
– 74% of Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI)
collisions, in Lincolnshire, occur on the
rural road network (speed limit is greater
than 40mph)
– Even distribution of these collisions across
the County
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
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Key points and problems to overcome:
– The RDP in Lincolnshire is not
geographically restricted
– The capital / revenue split required by
the DfT created concern among the
board and partners
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
• The LRSP have now developed a robust
strategy with a good range of measures from the
Three E’s
Engineering:
7 Initiatives
Enforcement:
2 Initiatives
Education:
5 Initiatives
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Engineering
Education
Enforcement
A52 Boston – Skegness
Speed Reduction
Measures
Managing Occupational
Road Risk (MORR)
In-car Video Systems –
Safety Camera Vans
Road Side Hazards
Life Skills Academy
VAS at Mobile Camera
Enforcement Sites
Passive Safety for Two
Wheeled Motor Vehicles
(TWMV)
Performance Plus
Additional Funding:
Average Speed Camera
Enforcement System
Enhanced Verge
Maintenance
Foreign Nationals
A17 Width Restriction
Agricultural Vehicles –
Mud on the Road (MOR)
Night-time Collisions
Speed Limit Vehicle
Activated Signs (VAS)
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
Enhanced Verge Maintenance – Why?
• LCC responsible for Verge Maintenance
regime - limits number of cuts each year
• 1.0m cut in verge
• Maintenance of hedges is responsibility
of adjacent land owner
• Vegetation has built up
• LCC and the LRSP receive complaints
from public
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
Enhanced Verge Maintenance – What?
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Treat two routes: A15 and B1188, both Road
Safety Red Routes (RSRR) which means they
have a higher than average KSI casualty rate)
One additional cut per year
Whole of verge to be cut as opposed to 1.0m
Special attention paid to visibility splays at
junctions, traffic signs and bends
Monitor the effect on collisions and vehicular
speeds
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
Enhanced Verge Maintenance – Outcome?
• Difficult to ascertain effects of verge
maintenance on contributory factors in
RTCs
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Speed readings taken before and after the
first cut at three sites along both treated
routes
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
Enhanced Verge Maintenance – Outcome?
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On B1188, there are slight increases in 85th
percentile readings
B1188
Before
(85th%ile)
After
(85th%ile)
Potterhanworth
Heath
60.7 mph
61.2 mph
58 mph
58.1 mph
56.1 mph
56.7mph
Blankney
Digby
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A15 – 85th%ile readings at two sites have
decreased
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Rural Demonstration Project:
Processes and Problems: Developing A
Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
Enhanced Verge Maintenance – Cost?
• For the first cut, including traffic
management, whole verge cuts and any
overhanging trees / hedges:
• Approximately £10,000
• Approximately 25km
• Unsure as to likely financial implications in
relation to cost of an additional cut per
year
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Rural Demonstration Project:
A Road Safety Strategy for Lincolnshire
More information can be found by following the RDP
link at www.roadlincs.com and in the brochures
available today.
Alternatively, contact me:
[email protected]
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