Road Safety Unit

The Road Safety Unit and partners will be implementing the road safety programmes, initiatives, campaigns and guidelines issued in the Pembrokeshire Partnership Road Safety Strategy 2006/2010.

Pembrokeshire Road Safety Unit partners listed in the Strategy are:

• Dyfed Powys Police
• Mid & West Wales Fire Service
• Pembrokeshire and Derwent Health Trust
• South West Wales Trunk Road Agency
• Chevron Texaco

The Strategy partners are committed to achieving national collision reduction targets by 2010. The targets are:

• 40% reduction in the total number of killed or seriously injured (KSi) casualties.
• 50% reduction in the total number of child killed or seriously injured casualties (Ksi) casualties.
• 10% reduction in the rate of slight casualties per 100,000,000 vehicles kilometres traveled.

These reductions will be achieved through partnership policies and in partnership with other groups and individuals and reflect partner agencies vision/aims.

Partnership Vision

The partnership vision is to improve levels of road safety and reduce the number of collisions and casualties on the county's road network. A planned co-ordinated approach with the partners will look at Educating, Training, Publicity and road collision analysis. This approach will consider accident data and develop planned measures and programmes to reduce collisions and casualties.

You can expect:

• Provision and management of School Crossing Patrol Service at 48 locations (July 2007) Government legislation allows School Crossing Patrols to cross all pedestrians at their locations and not just children.

Training

• Safe Cycling Scheme instruction to all Year 5 and 6 pupils between March and October each year. (approx. 1300 pupils)
• Kerbcraft – Teaching practical on road pedestrian skills to 5 to 7 year olds.   Funded by Welsh Assembly Government.
• Road safety education to Playgroups nurseries and Early Year Groups, through active learning and literature.
• Children`s Traffic Club – helps parents teach their children how to stay safe when out walking, playing or travelling by car.
• Administer and manage the Driver Improvement Scheme on behalf of the police authorities, mainly Dyfed Powys Police. 
• Co-ordination of the Crucial Crew Annual event
• Top-Drive – an initiative aimed at reducing road traffic collisions for the age group 17-20. 
• Co-ordination and management of the Pass Plus Cymru Scheme. To local newly qualified young drivers aged 17 -25 years of age.
• Operate a Junior Road Safety Officer Scheme in more than 30 primary schools in the county to make all young people aware of the dangers on the road.
• Horse riders can be trained locally by qualified instructors and tested by the County Road Safety Education Officer Qualified Examiner for the British Horse Society’s Riding & Road safety Certificate.

Information

• We provide road safety materials, videos and lessons to various community-run organizations, free of charge.
• We co-ordinate national and local campaigns, often jointly run with Dyfed Powys Police. Those run locally are: 
  • Child Pedestrian Campaign;
  • Drink Drive Campaign (Summer/Winter Campaigns);
  • Motor Bike Campaign;
  • Seat Belt Campaign
  • Mobile Phone Campaign
• We carry out road traffic collisions investigation in partnership with Dyfed Powys Police, the Trunk Road Engineer and the Highways Traffic Manager.

How you can help us

Write or telephone us with any concern you might have about road safety.

Whom should I contact?

John Gobbi
County Road Safety Education Officer
Tel:   01437 775144
Fax:  01437 775008
Email: john.gobbi@pembrokeshire.gov.uk