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Kent 4 star Council

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Kent Highway Services
Kent County Council
Invicta House
County Hall
Maidstone
Kent ME14 1XX

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Road safety

We constantly strive to keep road users as safe as possible on Kent roads. We do this through pedestrian, driver, rider and cyclist trianing, we also use traffic calming measures; and of course, County-wide Road safety awareness campaigns and displays.

Kent County Council provides cyclist training for Year 6 pupils in primary schools. The training is not designed to teach children how to ride their bikes, but is designed to teach them the basics of dealing with traffic.

What we are doing to reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured every year.

Keeping road users safe is one of the council's priorities. To help us do this, we constantly monitor the safety record of our roads. And we use data on casualties and crashes to create specific projects and initiatives to help us.

Safe driving means being aware of the consequences of your driving behaviour, and changing the way you drive so that there is less risk to you, your passengers, and other road users.

Raising safety awareness among all road users is a very important part of our work. We run training days and other schemes to improve road safety awareness, especially among children.

Traffic calming is the general term we use for a method of reducing speed or traffic.

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