2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 1 HSE STATISTICS RTA TRENDS 2003 RTAs and Issues John Graham CSM/15

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 2 Corporate Safety Performance YTD TOTAL 34 LTIs - 3 from Road Traffic Accidents

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 3 Corporate Safety Performance YTD

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 4 LTIF Performance 1986 – YTD 2003

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 5 RTAs per Million Kilometres DDC

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 6 Rollovers per Million Kilometres DDC Speed- limiters

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 7 Million kms driven RTAs RTAF Rollovers Rollover Freq RTA LTIs YTD Key Road Safety Performance Figures

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 8 The transport system Other Road Users The Driver Vehicle & Load Roads & Environment The main elements of Road Safety

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 9 Reversing (in car parks!) 17 Mechanical Failure 31xLTI Hit Fixed Object 17 1x LTI Unsecure Loads 27 and150 tons! 2 Rollover 13 1Fatal Hit O/Head line 1 2 Veh RTAs Turning Left 8 Changing Lanes 1 Rear Ender 3 Camel Hit 1 Head on Sideswipes 2 Vehicle Fire 2 = could have easily resulted in fatalities RTAs Year to Date

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 10 THE DRIVER Rollovers: Head-ons Rollovers: Head-ons :Fatigue /Boredom/Alertness Reversing/Hitting Fixed Objects Reversing/Hitting Fixed Objects: Carelessness THE VEHICLE TYRES Contributory Factors Care, Type, Suitability Turning Left- Lack of Observation,Awareness THE LOAD Unsecured Loads Not to SP 2001 specs FOCUS AREAS

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 11 Focus Areas: The driver n Fatigue: Driver Forum/Blitz Campaign - DtS Journey Manager Competency ASTiD Advisory System for Tired Drivers on trial in 7 vehicles Poster Campaign Toolbox Talks n Left Turns Triad Posters Briefing Pack Second Driver Forum Topic DtS

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 12 Focus Areas: The Vehicle n TYRES: Co-Topic of 2 nd Driver Forum / Blitz DtS TRL studying three tyres (independently) Three Tyre Safety Presentations on Web Tracking ALL RTAs with tyre failures involved, building up ‘a picture” RSMT focus n LOADS: SP-2001 introduced earlier in 2003 Briefing Pack Workshops RSMT Focus

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 13 Saloon car at very high speed, on wrong side of road went under trailer making left turn- 3 dead Rollover, tyre initiated? Truck making a left turn, while being overtaken, by a police vehicle! 3 rd party failed to stop at T-junction, but…defensive driving by other driver?? Yet another rollover RTA Examples

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 14 Rollover at high speed, one dead Two heavy loads fell off their trailers, could have been fatalities

2003 Road Safety Performance (to end of September) 15 THE END Cms further left—and two other fatalities!?? Two head on side – swipes with Heavy Vehicles CSM/15 30 Sept,2003 Road Safety is improving-but challenge is to maintain and improve upon current performance; example: