UK Road Safety sites Links
| PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety) The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) is a registered charity and an associate Parliamentary Group. Its charitable objective is "To promote transport safety legislation to protect human life". Its aim is to advise and inform members of the House of Commons and of the House of Lords on air, rail and road safety issues. It brings together safety professionals and legislators to identify research-based solutions to transport safety problems having regard to cost, effectiveness, achievability and acceptability. |
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| ROSCO (Road Operators' Safety Council) The Road Operators' Safety Council (ROSCO) was set up in 1955 to promote road safety in the bus & coach industry; ROSCO administers the national industry-wide annual safe driving awards. |
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| LARSOA (The Local Authority Road Safety Officers Association) LARSOA is a national road safety organisation that represents Road Safety Officers (RSOs) employed in local government across the UK. It supports RSOs in fulfilling their statutory role - to reduce the number and severity of road accidents through education, training and publicity policies and programmes. LARSOA seeks to influence national debate - government policy and action, and public opinion - and works with other organisations to achieve common goals. |
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| BRAKE - The Road Safety Charity Brake is a national road safety charity (registration number 1093244) with two aims: * To prevent death and injury on the roads through education of all road users and campaigning for Government improvements to road safety. * To care for people who are bereaved or affected by serious injury in a road crash through support services, including a helpline and literature distributed through police officers. |
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| Driving Standards Agency The Driving Standards Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Transport (DfT) and is part of the Driver, Vehicle and Operator (DVO) group. DSA’s aim is to promote road safety through improving driving standards by: 1) testing drivers, motorcyclists and driving instructors fairly and efficiently through the theory test and practical driving test; 2) maintaining the registers of approved driving instructors (ADIs) and Large Goods Vehicle Instructors. We are a national organisation and have headquarters in Nottingham, an impressive training and publications centre in Bedfordshire, administrative centres in London, Newcastle, Cardiff, Birmingham and Edinburgh and over 400 practical driving test centres across Great Britain. |
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| RoadPeace UK RoadPeace, the UK's national charity dedicated to supporting bereaved and injured road crash victims, was set up in February 1992 to meet the overwhelming need for a national organisation to represent and support this huge group of victims and draw attention to their almost non-existent rights. RoadPeace champions the rights of road crash victims to ensure the trauma they suffer is acknowledged. To this end, RoadPeace researches and documents the experiences of road crash victims, using the findings to inform and influence policy makers, agencies, the media and the public. |
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| The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is a registered charity established over 80 years ago and aims to campaign for change, influence opinion, contribute to debate, educate and inform - for the good of all. By providing information, advice, resources and training, RoSPA is actively involved in the promotion of safety and the prevention of accidents in all areas of life - at work, in the home, and on the roads, in schools, at leisure and on (or near) water. We raise awareness about the causes of road accidents and promote measures to help prevent them or reduce their severity. We provide information, education, training and publicity resources and services for road users and road safety professionals. |
