Road Safety Strategy

There are nearly three times as many accidents involving cars in rural areas than urban, and rural accidents are more likely to result in serious injuries (22% compared to 15% of urban car accidents)

Although Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has been attending RTC for decades The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 set out for the first time a legal requirement for the service to deal with Road Traffic Collisions (known as Road Traffic Accidents in the Act)

Road Safety Strategy 2006 to 2009

(::PDF:docs/policies-and-strategies/safer-communities/2006-09-road-safety-strategy.pdf::)

As with all of our plans, our Road Safety Strategy is a living document that will change if feedback from performance, local or national conditions change or when issues require changes in direction or focus.