Presentation by Assistant Director Transport and Highways
Minutes:
The Assistant Director, Capital
Projects, Transport and Highways Planning gave a presentation on
the systems and processes used to measure trends and patterns in
relation to road safety accidents within the Borough, through the
North East Regional Road Safety Resource.
It was reported that the Road Safety Resource, which was based at Gateshead Council and which was set up and funded under the Department for Transport’s Road Safety Grant Scheme, provided information and data analysis to support road safety education, training and publicity at a regional level, however, specific local information, could be obtained through the interactive map and the dashboard and an illustration of how to use the system to drill down into specific areas within Darlington was given.
Following previous questions by Members in relation to the Stonebridge Junction since its opening, we were advised that, in the four years prior to 2015, there had been 21 accidents and, in the four years since, there had been 11, one fatal, one serous and nine slight.
The Assistant Director reported
that, in terms of comparative information, a public satisfaction
survey had highlighted that Darlington was performing above the
national average in respect of road safety; was ranked number one
out of 113 authorities taking part in relation to road safety
education, number ten in relation to road safety environment and 28
in relation to road safety locally. The
Council had also recently won an award for being in the top
quartile for a themed result and for being within the top ten for
the number of benchmarking information with improvements.
RESOLVED – That the presentation be
noted.