Borough on track to hit accident reduction target

Oct 2 2008 Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

ROAD casualties in Halton have dropped for the third consecutive year.

The Halton 2007 Traffic Collisions Review shows the drop is part of a 10-year trend towards safer roads.

In 2007 there were 370 collisions in the borough - two resulted in fatalties and 42 people suffered serious injury.

In 1997 there were 511 collisions which resulted in eight deaths and 167 serious injuries.

However, 11 children were serious injury in 2007 compared to four in 2006.

The borough is expected to “comfortably” reach a Government target of a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured on Halton’s roads by 2010.

The Cheshire Safer Roads Partnership says it hopes to reduce casualties further through engineering work, use of safety cameras, education, training and publicity such as the Red Routes scheme, which marks accident blackspots with red warning signs.