RoadSafe News – March 2025

International news

Marrakech Road Safety Conference Ratifies Groundbreaking Declaration

The 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety concluded on 21 February in Marrakech with the adoption of a comprehensive declaration aimed at strengthening international commitment to safer roads.  Read more...

Directive for cross-border enforcement of road traffic rules

The European Union has recently adopted the new Directive to strengthen cross-border enforcement of road traffic rules.   Read more...

Driving at work

Global Road Safety Framework for Corporate Reporting.

A reporting structure initiated by the WHO and ITF, that encourages corporations to focus on road safety throughout their value chain   Read more...

FIA Road Safety Index reaches Milestone as Nine New Companies Receive Highest Rating

The new adopters were officially announced ahead of the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Marrakech, Morocco.  Read more...

Distracted Driving – steering you in the right direction

A company should have a clear policy zero tolerance for any breach of the law in their driver handbook and driving for work policies – and to do their bit by not expecting drivers to take or make calls or other communications.  Read more...

Road Safety Management

Road safety disparities linked to socioeconomic factors

New research highlights that inequality significantly impacts road safety outcomes across high-income countries.  Read more...

Transport for West Midlands has the Safe System at the heart of its Action Plan

The aim of the Refreshed Strategy is to set a challenging but realistic casualty reduction target of a 50% reduction in the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads by 2030.  Read more...

New Safe System Tool

A Safe System Tool which offers a user-friendly interface to navigate through the International Transport Forum’s framework for implementing a Safe System.   Read more...

Saving Lives Beyond 2025 - Safe Workplaces

New report highlights the right to safe workplaces, and how occupational health and safety obligations can motivate organisations to take on road safety as part of their efforts to demonstrate compliance and assure customers, investors, and business partners of their control of the leading cause of work-related injury deaths.  Read more...

Behaviour and the Safe System

White paper invites reflection, offering insights as pieces of a complex puzzle.   Read more...

Improving Road Safety is simply good business

Australia's National Road Safety Partner Program releases new road safety resources.  Read more...

Cycle safety

New safety standard for cargo bikes

Transport for London (TfL) have developed new safety standards for cargo bikes and their operators.  Read more...

Safer vehicles

Promoting Intelligent Speed Assistance

New research addresses the challenge of showing the benefits of ISA.  Read more...

Safer roads

Making rural roads safer for everyone

NFU Mutual create a Code for Countryside Roads to bring together expert knowledge and advice to make rural roads safer for everyone  Read more...

Eliminating High Risk Roads

iRAP is here to partner with governments, corporates and NGOs keen to eliminate high-risk roads for all road users  Read more...

Star Rating for Schools - Five YearsOn

The five-year success of the global Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Program helping to make school journeys safer and healthier for vulnerable youth in 76 countries has helped improve the safety of more than 458,700 students on their journey to school,  Read more...

Speed management

Promoting Intelligent Speed Assistance to reduce UK road traffic crashes

The University of Sheffield, in partnership with the University of Greenwich, received funding to promote Intelligent Speed Assistance as a technological solution that can reduce speed-related road traffic collisions.  Read more...

Post-crash response

Opinion: why road safety needs a chain of survival approach

Road Injury Chain of Survival could be the next game-changer in saving lives on UK roads.  Read more...

TRL links health records and collision data

TRL partners with University Hospital Southampton to reduce road deaths by linking health records and road traffic collision data in what is thought to be a world-first.  Read more...

Forthcoming events

RSGB National Analysts Conference – 4 March 2025

The role of technology in the delivery of the Safe System – 11 March 2025

Scotland Road Safety Summit 2025 – 20 March 2025

The Driving Instructor Convention – 23 March 2025

Managing Road Risk: What, Why & How... – 25 March 2025

The Safe System Exchange – 26 March 2025

Young Driver Focus 2025 – 21 May 2025

TyreSafe Briefing 2025 – 10 June 2025

International Symposium Navigating the Future of Traffic Management – 29 June 2025

ADINJC & Intelligent Instructor National Conference 25 – 28 September 2025

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