See below and attached the minutes of the Charnwood Road Safety Committee.
Charnwood Road Safety Committee Minutes 30 Sept 2024
CHARNWOOD ROAD SAFETY COMMITTEE
Minutes of the meeting held on Monday 30 September 2024 6.00 – 7.20 p.m. at Charnwood Borough Council
Present Representatives from: Leicestershire Police, Leics Fire & Rescue, Charnwood Borough Council, Birstall PC
Cossington PC, Quorn PC, Woodhouses Traffic Watch Group
1. Welcome – Chair: Penny Weston-Webb, Cossington PC
2. Apologies – Reps from Mountsorrel, Newtown Linford, Barrow, Thurcaston & Cropston, Liz Randall & Malcolm
Whitmore, Woodhouses Traffic Watch Group
3. Police, Fire & Rescue and parishes – discussion
• The booklet supplied earlier to all Charnwood parishes includes the latest updates. On page 3 is a note
about a plan to cease all fatal collisions across Europe by 2050 – the Vision Zero Project.
• The latest national casualty statistics had been published on 26 September the link is:
• https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annualreport-
2023/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2023
• In the force area there had been 6 fatal and 9 serious collisions up to September this year.
The casualty numbers remain stubbornly too high at 1,700 = an average of 5 deaths a day.
• Leics Police have acquired an extra camera van and this will circulate around village and town hot spots.
Offending is by drivers of all ages. With Fire & Rescue service they are trying to target 16-year-olds
before they start driving.
• There are 20 Community Speed Watch projects running and 20 planned for next year.
• Complaints about HGVs should go through parish councils. Police will then contact hauliers
by phone. There are 18 x 7.5t restrictions in the area.
• Average speed cameras cost c. £400,000. Not often factored into balancing this cost is the cost of damaged
street furniture.
• On the M1 there will be two more emergency lay-bys.
• FATAL4 operations run all year, the police top priority for casualty reduction, and offending is sadly not
reducing.
• The Euros drink/drive campaign caught 100 drivers, 17 in Charnwood.
• Other initiatives include new cameras that can track drivers using their phone.
• National Christmas campaign will run from 28 November to 11 January and be launched locally at Leicester’s
St George’s Retail Park, together with Fire & rescue Service and a FATAL4 operation. Some 140 drivers were
caught last Christmas.
• Drug driving is increasing.
• E-scooters: it is unlikely that there will be any further legislation – the question is whether or
not companies that allow deliveries to be done this way should be made responsible.
• Police are trying to encourage everyone to wear high visibility clothing during winter.
• Floods: unhelpful drivers who carry on create bow waves that affect adjacent householders.
Fire & Rescue service is called out more to help.
4. Next meeting: to be arranged