Category: WRSP News

Get on your bike this September with Love to Ride This September, Warwickshire County Council is joining forces with cycling platform Love to Ride to promote the benefits of cycling to residents and businesses across the County.   Sign-up with Love to Ride now: https://www.lovetoride.net/warwickshire     Warwickshire County Council recently joined the Love to Ride family… Continue reading Get on your bike this September with Love to Ride

Police are warning drivers not to risk drinking or taking drugs and driving as there is a high chance you will be arrested as part of a national campaign that aims to reduce death and serious injury on our roads.

Five drivers were arrested on suspicion of drink driving over the weekend of Friday 12 August to Sunday 14 August as the summer anti drink drug driving campaign gets underway.

Tougher new sentences for drink and drug drivers have been welcomed by police and road safety partners in Warwickshire, as the national Summer anti drink and drug driving operation gets underway.

Last chance to have your say on plans for walking and cycling in Warwickshire There is just over a week left for residents to give their views on important plans for walking and cycling across Warwickshire.   With the consultation period ending on 14 August, residents’ views are being sought on a draft version of… Continue reading Last chance to have your say on plans for walking and cycling in Warwickshire

A new van is being used to trial technology that can detect drivers holding a mobile phone at the wheel and people failing to wear a seatbelt

Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership has announced the results of a campaign that took place from 6-26 June to urge all drivers and passengers to always wear a seatbelt.

More than 400 vehicles were stopped and 387 offences recorded in a week of action by police and National Highways which saw officers patrolling the M6 in unmarked HGV cabs.

A man from Warwick was sentenced on 7 July 2022 to 3 points and £1200 fines and costs for careless driving as he passed a cyclist on Oakley Wood Road, Bishops Tachbrook in March 2021.

Helping residents to switch #JustOneJourney and ditch the car for an active travel alternative A new online platform from Warwickshire County Council’s Road Safety and Active Travel Teams aims to help residents to choose more active travel around the county.   The new website – https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/warwickshire-safe-active-travel  – forms part of a new campaign called #JustOneJourney which… Continue reading Helping residents to switch #JustOneJourney and ditch the car for an active travel alternative