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A slow improvement is being seen on Europe’s roads in terms of safety. In 2017, 25,250 people were killed in road crashes in the EU. This represents a 2% reduction from the road death rate for the EU in 2016. However there is concern that progress with road safety is too slow as the road death rate for the EU has fallen...

Mark Stephenson, Head of Consultancy Services at W.D.M. Limited, gave delegates at the Road Surface Treatment Association seminar an insight into the research carried out on the effectiveness of high friction surfacing. WDM® have measured the in-service sideway force coefficient, or wet skidding resistance of HFS, across the UK. The data collected supports the view that HFS...

W.D.M. Limited, the UK’s leading manufacturer of road surveying equipment, has appointed Ryland Potter as Director of Business Development for a newly-formed US subsidiary, WDM USA. Ryland spent the previous five years as a Managing Director with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, encouraging new companies to invest in the state. She played an instrumental part in...

The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) have notified that two-lane roads in France have had their default speed limit reduced 90 to 80 km/h since 1 July. Here's what they reported:  "The change applies on 40% of the French road network; some 400,000 km of roads are affected by the lower limit. The government says that 350-400 deaths a year could be...

Transport Network have created a report with the new inquiry into the funding and governance of roads across England. Here's some of the key points reported by the Transport Network: "Local roads make up around 98% of the total road network length and carry two-thirds of motor traffic, however they receive much less cash than the strategic network per mile...

This is how many people die on EU roads every week: Brussels – A new report by the European Transport Safety Council shows that road safety progress in the European Union has stagnated for the last four years. The organisation says governments need strong political will, urgent measures and substantial investments in safe infrastructure to reduce the 500 deaths that occur...

The European Commission has set a new EU target to halve road deaths, and for the first time, serious injuries, in the decade to 2030.  Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director of European Transport Safety Council, said: “Road traffic injury is still the number one killer of young people across the continent so these essential measures cannot come soon enough.”...

The Road Surface Treatment Association (RSTA)  held their second free training event ‘Reducing Skid Related Accidents using High Friction surfacing: Fact of Friction’ in Leicester on 16 May 2018. Mark Stephenson, head of Consultancy at W.D.M. Limited will be presenting cases studies that illustrate the performance of HFS surfaces as measured by SCRIM – the gold standard...