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The draft Leeds Safer Roads Vision Zero 2040 strategy

The strategy is made up of five ‘pillars’. Each pillar includes suggested actions to help achieve Vision Zero 2040.

  1. Safe Behaviours and People
  2. Safe Speeds
  3. Safe Roads
  4. Safe Vehicles
  5. Post-collision Learning and Care

Keep reading to find out more about each pillar and comment on our plans. There are 6 pages and 14 questions. 

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1. Safe Behaviours and People

Driver behaviours associated with the most serious injuries include: speeding, not wearing seatbelts, drink and drug driving, and distraction. 

To help to keep all road users safe, we will:

  • focus on preventing the most dangerous driver behaviours: speeding, drink and drug driving, distraction and seatbelt offences 
  • ensure that those who can do the greatest harm know that they have the greatest responsibility to reduce the danger they may pose to others
  • continue to develop education, training and campaigns about dangerous driving
  • work with partners to find new ways to address underlying issues  
  • encourage people to report dangerous driving to the Safer Roads Media Submissions Portal ('Operation SNAP') for the police to review. 

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2. Safe Speeds

The risk of crashing, and the likelihood of that crash resulting in death or serious injury, increases significantly with speed. We will stop people driving at illegal, dangerous and inappropriate speeds. We will do this through targeted enforcement and education and by working with partners. (The role of street design is covered under the next pillar, 'Safe Roads'.)

To support evidence-based enforcement, we will:

  • raise awareness of police work around speeding
  • find new places to put mobile and fixed speed cameras
  • consider options for average speed cameras.

To stop drivers speeding, we will also:

  • work more closely with communities (through neighbourhood policing teams and local councillors, for example) to understand the issues 
  • clarify the process for requesting fixed speed indicator devices 
  • complete the review of 20mph limits.

To raise awareness about the importance of safe speeds, we will:

  • support national speed awareness campaigns and create targeted local campaigns
  • develop work to improve traffic culture around speeding.

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3. Safe Roads

Leeds City Council’s Transport Strategy sets out our ambition to ‘be a city where you don’t need a car’. People need to feel that it is safe to walk or cycle. Segregated cycle lanes, wider pavements and other infrastructure investments are helping to achieve this. The more people walk or cycle, the fewer cars there will be on the road. 

To make roads safer and reduce the risk and severity of collisions, we will:

  • develop a network of safe routes to connect people and places
  • encourage people to walk, cycle, scoot or use the bus or train
  • continue to review areas of concern and the role of technology
  • make it easier for people to request improvements to the network.

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4. Safe Vehicles

We want people to travel in vehicles that are safe, to reduce the likelihood and severity of crashes. We will:

  • raise awareness about making sure vehicles are roadworthy
  • enforce vehicle safety and illegal vehicle offences
  • promote vehicle technology and design to prevent crashes and reduce severity
  • support improvements to vehicle standards.

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5. Post-collision Learning and Care

What happens after a collision can mean the difference between a minor injury and a serious one, and between life and death. By finding out what happened, we can learn how to stop the same thing from happening again.

To develop our post-collision response, we will:

  • share learning about responses times
  • learn from and support those who respond to traffic crashes
  • highlight the link between congestion and pressures on emergency services.

To develop our post-collision learning, we will:

  • consider how post-crash professionals could work more closely and improve processes 
  • work with bereavement and trauma specialists to think about how families might be able to help us to achieve Vision Zero.

To raise awareness of support for road victims and others affected, we will:

  • strengthen partnerships with road crash charities and organisations 
  • raise their profile so that eliminating road tragedy remains front and centre of the strategy.

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