Cork Road Safety Working Together Group Local Road Safety Plan
5. Delivering our Plan
5.1 The Way Forward….
The 5 th National Road Strategy adopts a transformational and partnership-based approach to road safety in Ireland, to achieve a 50% reduction in deaths and serious injuries by 2030. The plan runs from 2021 to 2030.
There are three distinct phases of the 10-year strategy as follows: 2021 - 2024 2025 - 2027 2028 - 2030
The seven areas of intervention of our Safe System approach are:
5.2 National Targets
The period 2017-2019 was used as the baseline for the setting of targets in the Government Road Safety Strategy(GRSS). The targets in our national strategy are:
15% reduction in fatalities by 2024 (End of Phase I) 10% reduction in serious injuries by 2024 (End of Phase I)
50% reduction in fatalities by 2030 50% reduction in serious injuries by 2030
5.3 Dangerous Behaviours
During the year 2020 In Cork 6,303 females and 12,737 males were issued with Penalty Point Notices.
Several challenges will need to be addressed to ensure the success of the Cork Road Safety Plan. They include:
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