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Government announces funding for safer roads
The government has announced nearly £50 million in funding for safer roads across England.
Road safety improvements will be made to 27 of the most high-risk roads in England in an attempt to prevent fatal and serious injuries.
It is anticipated that the investment will will prevent over 750 fatal and serious injuries over the next 20 years, with £420 million benefit to society.
The funding comes from the third round of the Safer Roads Fund, through which 27 new schemes will be delivered.
The funding will be spent on improvements such as redesigning junctions and improving signage and road markings.
Transport secretary Mark Harper said: "Britain’s roads are some of the safest in the world, but we are always looking at ways to help keep drivers and all road users safe.
"We’re injecting £47.5 million so that local councils around the country have the support they need to keep everyone safe, while reducing congestion and emissions and supporting local economies."
Previous rounds of the Safer Roads Fund programme focused on treating the 50 highest-risk local ‘A road’ sections in England with enhanced road safety engineering interventions.
Dr Suzy Charman, Executive Director of the Road Safety Foundation said: "The commitment and funding announced today is transformational for road safety teams in local authorities across the country. It will allow them to proactively reduce risk and make these 27 roads safer and more inviting for all road users.
"Systematic changes have already had a big impact on road death and serious injury, for example seatbelts and airbags protect lives when crashes happen. In the same way we can design roads safely so when crashes occur, people can walk away. This can be done by clearing or protecting roadsides, putting in cross hatchings to add space between vehicles which provides safer junctions like roundabouts, or adding signalisation and / or turning pockets, and including facilities for walking and cycling."
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