Its great to see this new webpage from DfT that maps casualty stats over the last 5 years in communities. It has filters such as age, speed limit, local authority and you can drill down into every crash. See
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Профиль VivelyThe most dangerous place for children is outside the school gate, correct? Actually, it's incorrect. Whilst many drivers treat children as hazards and see more outside school, its not where they are being killed or injured. Children need 20mph/30kmh protection across their whole community. See
In 2024, 11,337 children under 16 were injured on roads in Great Britain, according to the DfT. These include 42 killed and 2,357 seriously injured, a number little changed from a decade earlier. Most were not killed or injured in front of schools but in the rest of the road network.
Good to see the DM being asked a question and getting experts to answer it. The report concluded that the additional energy required for the engine to repeatedly accelerate up to a 30mph speed limit in stop–start driving means 20mph zones are generally more fuel–efficient.
In 2013 the UK Gov guidance on setting 20mph encouraged doing so on main roads. As progressive authorities across UK did so, it has built the evidence that 20mph main roads with previous higher speeds and pedestrian interactions record greater speed reductions and 25% casualty reductions. #20splenty
People being killed and harmed by motors on the public spaces between buildings that we call streets is a political choice not an inevitability. #20splenty www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
How 20mph limits are implicit in the government's Road Safety Strategy and how England could join Wales and Scotland with a default urban/village 20mph speed limit. www.20splenty.org/guidance_2026
The Government wants 60% of children walking or cycling to school by 2035 and a reduction of 70% in child road casualties. Impossible or Deliverable Find out at www.landorlinks.uk/dvz2026
Yet another government plan that will require a general default 20mph urbam/village speed limit to be successful. The current 30mph default is no longer fit for 21st century public health aspirations. www.gov.uk/government/p...
So true. We are delighted to be co-sponsoring the discussion and conference on how to make streets fit for children. www.transportxtra.com/publications...
More evidence for the huge benefits of 20mph or 30km/h as an urban norm. The report also reference the 26% reduction in casualties from the Welsh award winning 20mph national urban/village default. datamobility.it/magazine/bol...
Another government target that will require the foundation of a default urban/village 20mph limit as minister calls for 60% of school journeys to be "active travel" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wales achieved a 26% reduction in casualties on 20/30mph roads when a default 20 was set. But if you exclude the casualties on roads that didn't change the reduction increases to 37%. See the 1st presentation in our webinar
We have now uploaded the video of our 5th Delivering 20 webinar with perspectives from Wales, Oxfordshire, Cornwall, West Midlands and the Government's Road Safety Strategy