Managing road safety
Our Road Safety Strategy explains how we aim to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on Swindon’s roads.
Our approach to road safety
Full Council approved the Road Safety Strategy in January 2022.
The strategy follows the ‘Safe System’ approach used in the United Nations Global Plan for Road Safety.
The approach has four principles:
- people make mistakes that can cause road crashes
- the human body can only withstand a limited amount of force before injury occurs
- everyone who designs, builds, manages, or uses roads and vehicles shares responsibility for road safety
- every part of the road system must work together, so people remain protected if one part fails
This approach recognises that we cannot prevent every mistake or road casualty.
It focuses on reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured on Swindon’s roads. We measure this against the three-year average from 2017 to 2019.