Safer Essex Roads Partnership

The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) has brought together the three local authority areas of Essex County Council, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Thurrock Council to provide a road safety service across Greater Essex. The other SERP partners are Essex Police, Essex Fire and Rescue Service, Highways England, The Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust, The East of England NHS Trust and The Safer Roads Foundation. The partnerships purpose is to reduce death and serious injury on Essex roads to zero, an ambitious vision and one which we cannot tackle alone: each road user plays a part. We have set a challenging interim target for 2030 to reduce death and serious injuries by 50% from our previous target for 2020. This equates to fewer than 415 deaths and serious injuries by 2030. The reason for the ambitious target is that we need to plot a course towards zero people killed or seriously injured on the roads. Zero is the only acceptable number of lives cut short, permanently ch...