Communities Affecting Road Safety is a Road Safety initiative, creating a partnership between the community and Road Safety Education, Training and Publicity. It has the primary aim of raising road safety awareness in as many areas of the community as possible, by encouraging and enabling road users to increase their road safety skills and improve hazard perception and risk management through existing service providers within the community.

One of the major problem affecting towns and villages in the County is the speed of vehicles travelling through them. This has a big impact on the general 'well-being' of local residents and their perception of danger in their own street.

Many of the offenders come from the very communities they intimidate. It is felt that by working with existing service providers within the community we can become more effective in influencing people's attitudes and changing their behaviour. It is hoped that working in this way will minimise cost and the target audience groups will be even wider.

By encouraging those people/groups within the community we can effectively influence the way the community travels on our ever increasingly dangerous roads by developing an integrated road safety strategy.

The service provider are those responsible members of the community who have access to the community through their everyday work, for example:

• Doctors
• Midwives
• Health Visitors
• Social Workers
• Age Concern
• Sight concern
• Libraries
• Schools
• Local Councillors
• The Church
• Local Shopkeepers
• Childminders
• Pre-School Groups
• Youth Group Leaders