In the year 2000 the Government published their road safety strategy "Tomorrow's Roads: Safer for Everyone", containing the following national targets for road casualty reduction for the year 2010:
Compared with the average for 1994 to 1998, we want to achieve:
- A 40 per cent reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured
- A 50 per cent reduction in the number of children (under 16) killed or seriously injured
- A 10 per cent reduction in the slight casualty rate, expressed as the number of people slightly injured per 100 million vehicle kilometres
The table below shows the headline figures for Surrey since 1994. In 2009 there were 571 casualties killed or seriously injured in Surrey. This is a 39 per cent reduction compared to the average of 931 casualties for the period 1994 to 1998. The report available to download at the bottom of this page contains more detailed analysis of the trends in the number of casualties since 1994.
While speed or jumping red lights is not the sole cause of road traffic collisions, the simple fact is that speeding and disobeying red traffic signals is an unnecessary contributor to the number of casualties on our roads.
The links to the left provide further information on the effectiveness of our safety camera enforcement (including data for each of our safety camera sites), the rules we follow in order to ensure our enforcement is visible, and the policy we follow for introducing new safety camera sites at collision hotspots throughout Surrey.
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