Council to join new road safety partnership

17 Sep 2024

The County Council is to join a new partnership aimed at increasing safety on the region’s roads. 

The Council’s Cabinet iapproved entering the new partnership agreement between the local authorities in the Northumbria Police area and Northumbria Police and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria. 

The Northumbria Road Safety Partnership (NRSP) will supersede the existing Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative (NSRI). 

Among its priorities are: 

• To address problem areas on the highway network to improve road safety and drive compliance with existing speed limits 

• To provide feedback and intelligence to Northumbria Police on mobile speed camera sites and discuss the proposals for mobile speed camera sites 

• To collaborate on road safety related research and develop and implement education activities which focus on bespoke groups. 

Council Leader Glen Sanderson said: “Having fixed safety cameras in key road locations does help to reduce speeds and increase safety so I am pleased that we are making progress on this important area. 

“This will be good news especially for villages where speeding causes safety concerns  such as Longhorsley and Longframlington and at the junction on the A1 at Highlaws." 

The report to Cabinet said it was recognised good practice to have a road safety partnership between the local authority and Police since both have legal responsibilities connected to road safety, but also have opportunities to work together efficiently around education, prevention and direct action.