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Northern Ireland’s Road Safety Strategy to 2020 outlines the key road safety challenges to be addressed over the next ten years.  It contains 199 Measures for improving the safety of all road users which are presented under ‘Safer Roads’, ‘Safer Vehicles’ and ‘Safer Road Users’.  

The vision for road safety is “to make a journey on Northern Ireland’s roads as safe for all road users as anywhere in the world”.  The casualty reduction targets contained in the Strategy seek to make this vision a reality and are supported by a number of key performance indicators that will aid better understanding of road safety issues and solutions in the years to come.  

The Road Safety Strategy to 2020 details what government intends to do to further improve road safety over the next ten years. It identifies 4 key casualty reduction targets and sets out 199 measures to further reduce road deaths and serious injuries up to 2020.  A Summary of the Strategy, including the measures to be delivered in the first three years, can be accessed here.

This is an easy read version of the Road Safety Plan and talks about what we want our roads to be like, what needs to change and what we will do to change things in the years to come.