New target aims to halve road deaths

11 Jun 2015 02:42 PM

Mayor Boris Johnson has set a target to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the Capital's roads by 50 per cent by 2020.

It comes as the previous target of a 40 per cent cut, compared with the government baseline, was met five years early.

The latest TfL figures show that the number of casualties on the city's roads is at an all-time low.

Compared with last year, the number of pedestrians killed or seriously injured has gone down by seven per cent and car occupants by six per cent.

For cyclists it has dropped 12 per cent - despite a huge increase in the number of people cycling - and for children it has been cut by 11 per cent.

Managing Director of TfL Surface Transport Leon Daniels said: 'Every death and injury on our roads is one too many and we will be relentless in pursuing the Mayor's new target.'

Work to improve road safety in the Capital includes:

• Improvements to road layouts, such as segregated cycle lanes
• Road safety and cycle training
• Marketing campaigns aimed at road users
• Police road safety operations
• Seizing the most dangerous commercial vehicles
• Improving lorry designs to reduce blind spots 

Find out more at tfl.gov.uk/roadsafety