A NEW plan to improve road safety across Merseyside has been launched by the Liverpool City Region.
The strategy is focused on driving down the number of road traffic collisions and reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured.
Merseyside Police Commissioner, Emily Spurrell, and Mayor of Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram, were joined by partners including Wirral Council’s Chair of the Environment, Climate Emergency and Transport Committee, Cllr Liz Grey, to launch the strategy.
Merseyside’s Police Commissioner Emily Spurrell said: “Each and every death or serious injury on our roads is one too many. These road collisions devastate lives, families and communities.
“We are committed to ensuring everyone can travel throughout our region safely and this ambitious plan sets out how as a partnership we want to reduce the number of fatalities and casualties in the years ahead, with the ultimate aim that there are no avoidable collisions on our roads.
“Deaths and injuries on our roads are neither acceptable nor inevitable – they are preventable and that is what we are focused on delivering.”
The new plan focuses of safe speeds, streets, vehicles and behaviour and aims to ensure that by 2024 there are no avoidable collisions on the region’s roads.
The strategy also includes targeted action plans to keep cyclists, motorcycle users, senior road users and pedestrians safe on and around Merseyside’s roads.
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