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Road Safety

Every year, around 80 people are killed or seriously injured on West Lothian roads and a further 600 are slightly injured. In response, we published our Road Safety Plan in 2006 which sets out how we aim to improve road safety in West Lothian.

The plan is reviewed annually to ensure that it reflects the needs of the community and the available resources.

The council is currently working with partners to develop a new road safety plan to cover the period to 2015. This will reflect the Scottish Governments national targets, published in its Road Safety Framework in 2009.

The council's road safety work is co-ordinated by the Road Safety and Traffic Management team based within Transportation at County Buildings, Linlithgow. The work of the team includes:

Developing and maintaining the council's road safety plan
Providing general road safety advice
Undertake accident investigation studies
Carrying out road safety audits of new road schemes
Collating and analyising accident statistics
Arranging and analysing speed surveys

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ROAD SAFETY PLAN FOR WEST LOTHIAN 2012-2015

We have recently developed a Road Safety Plan for West Lothian to cover the next 3 years from 2012 to 2015. A copy of this draft document can be downloaded below in the section titled “downloadable documents”.

At this time we are seeking your comments on the plan and therefore we are undertaking a consultation exercise over the next 3 weeks. We would welcome any comments that you have and would ask you to submit them using the web link below.

The link below accesses a form which has been provided in order to help you give comments on the draft Road Safety Plan for West Lothian 2012-2015.

Please answer as many of the questions as you can and provide any additional comments in the box provided. This consultation period will last until 20 February 2012.

http://www.opiniontaker.com/surveys/websurvey.asp?ci=49&si=3248

Updated 25/01/12