Surrey RoadSafe Launches Vision Zero at Loseley Park

On Friday 29^th November Surrey RoadSafe formally announced the launch of Vision Zero — an ambitious road safety strategy which aims to halve road collisions by 2035 and completely eliminate them by 2050. The event took place at Loseley Park in Guildford, Surrey.

The announcement came on the eve of #OpLimit, the annual anti drink and drug drive campaign, the largest roads policing operation in the road safety calendar.

The event, hosted by Surrey RoadSafe, provided an opportunity for key figures from across the partnership to connect and focus on all things road safety.

The key partners comprise Surrey Police, Surrey County Council, Surrey Fire & Rescue, The Office of The Police and Crime Commissioner and National Highways.

Vision Zero is a different approach to road safety, one which has already been widely adopted both domestically and overseas which aims to achieve zero deaths on Surrey’s Roads by 2050.

Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Rayland, responsible for roads policing in Surrey, made the announcement alongside the cabinet minister for Highways, Transport and Economic Growth, Matt Furniss.

Vision Zero is based on an underlying ethical principle that “It can never be ethically acceptable that people are killed or seriously injured when moving within the road transport system.” In most road transport systems, road users bear complete responsibility for safety. Vision Zero changes this relationship by emphasising that responsibility is shared by transportation system designers and road users.

Vision Zero is built on the safe systems approach, made up of five components: Safer Speeds, Safer Road Users, Safer Roads and Infrastructure, Safer Vehicles and Post-Collision Response, as illustrated in Surrey RoadSafe’s Vision Zero Logo.

Delivering Vision Zero is the collective responsibility of all road users. With this in mind, Surrey RoadSafe took to the streets in the towns of Guildford and Epsom to engage with the general public and raise awareness of the announcement. The public engagement provided an opportunity for Surrey RoadSafe to share their knowledge and expertise on road safety measures and to talk about how they are addressing road safety in line with the new approach.

Please join us on the road to zero using the hashtag #SRSVisionZero on Facebook and X. Together, we can deliver zero road deaths and make Surrey’s roads safer for everyone.

To find out more, please visit www.surreyroadsafe.org.uk/vision-zero where you can also download the full strategy document which covers every aspect of the initiative in fine detail.