Road traffic collisions and safety (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)

Evidence for interventions

The World Health Organisation sets out five key evidenced based interventions for safer roads

  1. Setting and enforcing speed limits
  2. Designing roads according to their function (e.g. highways, suburban roads)
  3. Speed cameras or stationary enforcement
  4. Traffic calming measures, such as speed bumps and traffic circles
  5. Education and public information

Nice Guidance, Unintentional injuries on the road: interventions for under 15s (PH31) provides the following recommendations:

  1. Health Advocacy and Engagement
  2. Needs assessment and planning
  3. Measures to reduce speed
  4. Popular routes

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