This publication welcomes the achievement of the UK casualty reduction targets set in the publication Tomorrow's Roads - Safer for Everyone, but notes that casualty reduction had not been consistent across user profile, type, behaviour or location. The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety has provided a set of recommendations for the following decade, based on separately benchmarking road safety for Metropolitan County Areas, Predominantly Rural Areas and the Central Shire Areas. London, Wales andScotland were also separately viewed as large area or national groupings.In the Metropolitan County Areas, deprivation appeared to be hindering the pace of casualty reduction, while in London, the active travel agenda and other circumstances were making the actual number of cyclist injuries rise. The comparisons provided an evidence base from which collaborative approaches to specific road safety issues could be envisaged. More sophisticated, non-general casualty reduction targets at local levels are suggested.The use of area groupings also highlighted the potential for economies ofscale through shared research funding, shared knowledge and good practiceguidance and shared funding for education, training and publicity measures. Recommendations for changes of working and funding practices within theDepartment for Transport are made. The full text of this article may be found at: http://www.pacts.org.uk/docs/pdf-bank/Beyond%202010%20-%20Taking%20Stoc…
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