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April - bike tyre safety month (12 Mar 10)
During April many motorcyclists will be embarking on their first ride of the year and RoadSafe partnerTyreSafe will be aiming to help keep them safe and legal with bike tyre safety month.

Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 proclaimed by governments around the world (3 Mar 10)
Yesterday (2 March) governments around the world took the historic decision to increase action to address the road safety crisis over the next ten years. The UN General Assembly resolution proclaiming...

Safer Roads Humber (3 Mar 10)
Safer Roads Humber is the road safety partnership for the Humber region. Its aim is to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the regions roads. Safer Roads Humber is working...

95 Alive – York and North Yorkshire Success (3 Mar 10)
The target to save 95 lives on the roads of York and North Yorkshire between 2005 and the end of 2010 has almost been achieved with nearly a year to go. Ninety one people are alive today who might...

Safer Cars play a big role in casualty reduction – but much more needs to be done to improve rural roads (2 Mar 10)
We are now beginning to see the benefits of newer, safer cars on our roads. In its Car users accounted for 50% of the fatalities in 2008, but travelled 84% of passenger miles. This and many...

PRAISE Report 2 'Fit for Road Safety: From Risk Assessment to Training' (2 Mar 10)
As part of its PRAISE project ETSChas published its second Thematic Report which presents how driver risk assessment and training can improve work related road safety. The report considers risk...

Safer Roads Humber Partnership with M&G Vehicle Hire. (2 Mar 10)
Hull based MG Vehicle Hire, one of the first Driving for Better Business champions and a subsidiary of Northgate, Europes largest rental and leasing firm, has been working with the Safer Roads Humber...

Names in Lights (26 Feb 10)
A bold new 3.5M THINK! campaign to cut motorcyclist was launched today. Motorcyclists will see their names up in lights as part of a bold new THINK! campaign to save lives on the roads. The new TV...

International Knowledge Centre (26 Feb 10)
RoadSafe leads the Road Safety theme for gTKP - an innovative partnership of global organisations, local policy-makers, experts and interested users working to make effective use of international...

The Safe Road User Award (26 Feb 10)
Following a successful trial in ten schools in Scotland, this Award is now available UK-wide. It has has been developed in collaboration with the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), is now available stems...