SERP Traditional Cache
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The Safer Essex Roads Partnership The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) has brought together the three local authority areas of Essex County Council, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Thurrock Council to provide a road safety service across ‘Greater Essex’. The other SERP partners are Essex Police, Essex Fire and Rescue Service, Highways England, The Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust, The East of England NHS Trust and The Safer Roads Foundation. ALL NDORS COURSES BEING DELIVERED BY SERP IN ESSEX ARE RUNNING AS PLANNED Our targets The partnership’s purpose is to reduce death and serious injury on Essex roads to zero, an ambitious vision and one which we cannot tackle alone: each road user plays a part. We have set a challenging interim target to reduce death and serious injuries by 40% by 2020 (from the baseline average of 2005-2009), which equates to fewer than 607 deaths and serious injuries, and fewer than 4,108 slight injuries, by 2020. The reason for the ambitious target is that 607 lives cut short, permanently changed, or involved in serious injury resulting in hospitalisation and time off work each year, is far too high. Many more lives – of the families and friends of those injured – are also changed in the instant their loved one is injured in a road traffic collision. In 2014 there were 39 deaths (more than three each month), 708 serious injuries (more than 13 each week) and 4,728 slight injuries (more than 13 each day!). Records indicate that for every injury collision reported to the police, there are 10 damage only collisions; so that’s 130 ‘bangs, knocks and bumps’ in Essex every day. Our plan (JRSDP) We promote road safety and casualty reduction through a number of activities, interventions, programmes and products which involve a combination of education, engagement, engineering and enforcement. In order to achieve our target we review the previous year’s collision data to evaluate what we have achieved and understand whether we are targeting the right road user groups in the right way at the right time. This analysis forms the basis of a Joint Road Safety Delivery Plan (JRSDP) which is being delivered for the first time this year (2015). During the year we will monitor data on a weekly basis to allow us to evaluate our activities and change the plan if necessary by redirecting resources to road user groups experiencing high numbers or unexpected increases in fatal or serious casualty numbers. The JRSDP details the activities each partner will deliver with partnership support and funding. We will interact directly with more than 270,000 Essex road users each year and will, we hope, reach a total of 600,000 using various media for campaigns
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