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Help police reduce road deaths
August 20, 2012
Have your say on the way police investigate road deaths.
The consultation, organised by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), will focus on police standards when responding, reporting and investigating road traffic collisions and will influence policy and guidance.
Assistant Chief Constable Sean White said: “The police service is committed to preventing and reducing the loss of life or serious injury on our roads. Long-term trends indicate that, together with other agencies, we are achieving that ambition.
“However, in 2011 in England and Wales on average five people still lost their lives on our roads every day, 63 people sustained serious injuries and hundreds of others suffered other injuries.”
ACPO’s last review of its Road Death Investigation Manual (RDIM) was in 2007.
Reported road deaths have reduced from about 5,500 a year in the mid 1980s to fewer than 2,000 last year 2011.
Over the same period, reported road casualties have decreased from 240,000 to around 200,000.
The consultation runs until Friday, September 7. To comment, visit www.cleveland.police.uk/contact-us/ManualReview1.aspx or write to ACC Sean White at Cleveland Police Headquarters, PO Box 70, Ladgate Lane, Middlesbrough, TS8 9EH.
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