West Sussex Road Safety Strategy 2025-2036

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Overview

A key objective of Our Council Plan is to keep people safe from vulnerable situations. How safe people feel in their environment affects lifestyle and travel choices they make. The West Sussex Transport Plan (opens in new window), supported by the Active Travel Strategy (opens in new window), includes provision for providing a safer, cleaner, more accessible transport network encouraging active travel (walking, wheeling, and cycling) and access to shared transport.

Our Council Plan (opens in new window) also includes a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) (opens in new window) for the reduction of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) in road traffic collisions. Deaths and injuries from road traffic collisions impose a significant economic, environmental, health, and social burden on society. A safer road environment is more likely to encourage people to make more active travel choices.

This Road Safety Strategy (opens in new window) sets out the County Council’s approach to road safety and to support active travel choices set against a background of Vision Zero, the internationally recognised ambition to eliminate all road deaths and severe injuries by 2050. It demonstrates our adoption and integration of Safe System, a widely accepted best practice approach to road safety and traffic management.

Safe System considers 5 key elements that contribute to reducing risk of harm to road users: Safe Road Use / Behaviours, Safe Speeds, Safe Roads and Roadsides, Safe Vehicles, and Post-crash Response. Applying Safe System is proactive, identifying and mitigating latent risks in the transportation system, and accepting that responsibility is shared across stakeholders and road users.

We want to hear your views about our approach to road safety and our vision for a safer road environment for everyone, free from people being killed or seriously injured.

Accessibility

How to have your say

Please ensure you have read the Road Safety Strategy (opens in new window) provided before responding.

Alternative Formats and Accessibility

If you require any of the information for this project in an alternative format, please contact us on 01243 642105 or via email at roadsafety@westsussex.gov.uk and we will do our best to assist you. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have an NGT texting app installed on your computer, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 01243 642105.

For more information about the accessibility of this website, please see our Accessibility tab (opens in new window) at the foot of the page.

A downloadable copy of the Road Safety Strategy Consultation Survey (opens in new window) is available for your convenience. If you need to download and complete a paper copy of the survey, please return it to:

Road Safety Group, First Floor Northleigh, County Hall, West Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1RH.

Survey Web Browser Compatibility

Please use one of the browsers below when completing the survey to ensure it looks and works as it should. These are:

  • Microsoft Edge version 86 and above
  • Chrome version 86 and above
  • Firefox version 78 and above
  • Safari version 14 and above

Overview

A key objective of Our Council Plan is to keep people safe from vulnerable situations. How safe people feel in their environment affects lifestyle and travel choices they make. The West Sussex Transport Plan (opens in new window), supported by the Active Travel Strategy (opens in new window), includes provision for providing a safer, cleaner, more accessible transport network encouraging active travel (walking, wheeling, and cycling) and access to shared transport.

Our Council Plan (opens in new window) also includes a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) (opens in new window) for the reduction of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) in road traffic collisions. Deaths and injuries from road traffic collisions impose a significant economic, environmental, health, and social burden on society. A safer road environment is more likely to encourage people to make more active travel choices.

This Road Safety Strategy (opens in new window) sets out the County Council’s approach to road safety and to support active travel choices set against a background of Vision Zero, the internationally recognised ambition to eliminate all road deaths and severe injuries by 2050. It demonstrates our adoption and integration of Safe System, a widely accepted best practice approach to road safety and traffic management.

Safe System considers 5 key elements that contribute to reducing risk of harm to road users: Safe Road Use / Behaviours, Safe Speeds, Safe Roads and Roadsides, Safe Vehicles, and Post-crash Response. Applying Safe System is proactive, identifying and mitigating latent risks in the transportation system, and accepting that responsibility is shared across stakeholders and road users.

We want to hear your views about our approach to road safety and our vision for a safer road environment for everyone, free from people being killed or seriously injured.

Accessibility

How to have your say

Please ensure you have read the Road Safety Strategy (opens in new window) provided before responding.

Alternative Formats and Accessibility

If you require any of the information for this project in an alternative format, please contact us on 01243 642105 or via email at roadsafety@westsussex.gov.uk and we will do our best to assist you. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have an NGT texting app installed on your computer, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 01243 642105.

For more information about the accessibility of this website, please see our Accessibility tab (opens in new window) at the foot of the page.

A downloadable copy of the Road Safety Strategy Consultation Survey (opens in new window) is available for your convenience. If you need to download and complete a paper copy of the survey, please return it to:

Road Safety Group, First Floor Northleigh, County Hall, West Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1RH.

Survey Web Browser Compatibility

Please use one of the browsers below when completing the survey to ensure it looks and works as it should. These are:

  • Microsoft Edge version 86 and above
  • Chrome version 86 and above
  • Firefox version 78 and above
  • Safari version 14 and above
Page last updated: 02 Feb 2025, 11:55 PM