Who are we?

The Road Casualty Reduction (RCR) Group for the South East Region is formed of representatives from: local government Highway Authorities; Police Forces; Fire & Rescue Services; Road Safety Partnerships (known formerly as safety camera partnerships); the Highways Agency and Government Office of the South East in southeast England

RCR works towards achieving the Government’s casualty reduction target for 2010 from which the name of the group derives, although many of the members have agreed more challenging targets to be met earlier than 2010

RCR2010 meets every quarter and in the interim, specialist cycling and walking; safety engineering; education, training and publicity; enforcement and benchmarking groups meet to share and promote good practice. The Chairman’s Report identifies the current changing emphasis of the group and links to key road safety websites show the range of regional and national road safety documents and intitiatives

RCR was first formed in the late 1980’s in response to the Government’s target to reduce road casualties on Britain’s roads by the year 2000. It was formed to share good practice and to develop a regional report on activity and progress towards the target. Now RCR2010 is starting to look beyond the 2010 targets. Terms of reference

Members of RCR 2010 identify casualty reduction initiatives based on casualty data and research and develop issues that need to be explored and resolved at regional and national level. Local service delivery and priorities across the region will vary because of the nature of the membership, comprising organisations from densely populated cities to open rural farmland. Not every organisation has the same road casualty problems, so programmes are often tailored to local priorities. What is common to every partner however is a firm commitment to bring about further improvement in safety in the region.