The Road Safety Audit process

A Road Safety Audit tries to identify potential road safety problems and to suggest ways in which these identified problems can be minimised. The UK Highways Agency (HA) standard HD 19/15 suggests that issues to be investigated include collisions between vehicles, collisions between vehicles and vulnerable road users, and situations in which road users could trip or fall on the highway (HA, 2015).

Road Safety Audits in the UK are carried out at specific stages in the design, construction and monitoring phases of a project:

There is an additional type of Road Safety Audit known as an interim audit that can be carried out during design or construction.