Lilian Greenwood, Minister for Local Transport, with responsibility for road safety, joined Crookes & Crosspool councillors Minesh Parekh and Ruth Milsom out in Crosspool on Saturday 28th February.
The councillors and Minister visited Benty Lane at its junction with Manchester Road, near to the site of a recent serious incident.
The government has recently announced a new Road Safety Strategy, which aims to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on roads in the UK. The strategy commits the government to:
- crack down on the “Fatal Four”: speeding, drink/drug driving, seat belt use, mobile phones
- introduce mandatory advanced safety tech in new vehicles
- update street design guidance to make rural roads safer
- establish a Road Safety Investigation Branch to learn from collisions
The Road Safety Strategy is the UK’s first road safety plan in over a decade, aligns with the work of Sheffield City Council to reduce the number of injuries on Sheffield’s roads, which has recently seen a fall of fifteen percent in people who have died or were seriously injured on Sheffield’s roads.
Minesh Parekh, Crookes and Crosspool Councillor said:
“Any death or serious injury on our roads is one too many. I am glad that the government is increasing focus to make our roads safer, and that we were able to welcome Minister Greenwood to Crosspool to see our roads firsthand.”
“We are bringing in a new 20 mph limit to Crookes, adding to the 20mph limits the council has rolled-out across Crosspool, and we have established a community speed-watch group to help reduce speeding cars, as we work to make our roads the safest, they can possibly be.”
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