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Road safety is a vital element of everyone's choice of travel, from pedestrians to motorists, and children to older road users. Crashes on our roads are the greatest cause of accidental death in Fife, resulting in unnecessary grief and suffering.
The cost of crashes on Fife's roads in 2003 was estimated at £65M. Around 200 people are killed or seriously injured each year - that means that every second day, a family in Fife are undergoing the trauma and grief of having a loved one hurt in a crash.
Fife has a vision of creating strong, thriving communities where people can expect a quality of life that comes from living in a safe environment. That includes making roads safer, particularly for the most vulnerable groups such as children, older people, pedestrians and cyclists.
The new Road Safety Strategy for Fife 2003-2007 provides a strategic focus to address these issues and seeks to reduce road casualties in Fife by effectively planning, co-ordinating and delivering road safety activities. The Government has set challenging targets for significantly reducing road casualties by 2010. This Strategy sets out the main ways Fife aims to improve road safety in the next 5 years using a holistic, multi-agency approach, working towards these targets. In 2003, Fife achieved 2 of the 3 Government targets - those relating to child casualties and the slight casualty rate - and must now seek to sustain and build on these achievements in the future.
The Road Safety Co-ordination Group - a multi-agency group including Fife Council, Fife Constabulary and NHS Fife - drove the development of the new Strategy. Each member organisation contributed to the overall Strategy and have set targets for their own area of remit for road safety.
