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Face to Face with the Consequences: Schoolchildren Challenge Speeding Drivers in Waltham Abbey
As part of the latest Vision Zero Day, the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) brought together education, enforcement and community engagement across Waltham Abbey, with School Speed Watch taking centre stage. What happens when children ask speeding drivers why they were breaking the speed limit? For many motorists in Waltham Abbey, it proved to...
Harwich Vision Zero Day: Road Safety Action Across the Community
From school gates and local businesses to roadside enforcement sites, The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) came together in Harwich for another productive Vision Zero Day, engaging with hundreds of residents while tackling the behaviours that put lives at risk on Essex roads. “It’s Good to See Road Safety Being Taken Seriously” The day began...
Southend Vision Zero Day: The Excuses, The Enforcement, and the Reality of Road Risk
Conversations That Could Save Lives Alongside enforcement, the team engaged directly with road users at the roadside and along Southend seafront. More than 100 vehicles were brought into the site, allowing officers to speak with drivers and passengers about the dangers of mobile phone use and the importance of wearing seatbelts. In total, 123...
Back Your Team: Essex Influencers Back World Cup Anti-Drink Drive Campaign
As the second England game gets underway today, four Essex content creators are joining the Safer Essex Roads Partnership’s (SERP) Back Your Team campaign this summer, to help take a potentially lifesaving road safety message directly to the young men most at risk on Essex roads. Just as football fans rally behind England again...
Essex Fans Encouraged to Blow the Whistle on Drink Driving This World Cup.
A new summer road safety campaign is launching across Essex ahead of the first England game of the 2026 World Cup, urging football fans to back their team by preventing their mates from making dangerous decisions behind the wheel. Led by the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP), “Back Your Team” comes as drink driving...
Vision Zero Day Comes to Brentwood
The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) was out across Brentwood as part of the latest Vision Zero Day of Action, combining enforcement, education and community engagement to help make Essex roads safer for everyone. The day began at Larchwood Primary School, where the education team spoke with 83 parents about pedestrian and road safety,...
Vision Zero Day of Action in Colchester
From School Speed Watch to roadside enforcement, The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) came together across Colchester, as part of a Vision Zero day of action. The education team visited Queen Boudica Primary School, speaking with parents about road safety, including how positive role model road user behaviours play a crucial part in keeping children...
Vision Zero Returns to Basildon with a Day of Enforcement and Engagement
The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) returned to Basildon for another highly visible day of Vision Zero activity, combining enforcement, education, and community engagement to surround the town. From schools to town centres and roadside enforcement sites, partners worked together to tackle risky driving behaviours, speaking directly with residents and drivers, with the target...
The Safer Essex Roads Partnership delivers major month of road safety enforcement across Essex
The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) has continued proactive activity across Essex throughout the past month, supporting local communities, tackling speeding concerns and widening the road safety footprint across both urban and rural areas. Essex Police officers carried out enforcement activity at community concern locations, vulnerable road user sites including schools, key cycling and...
Vision Zero Day Loughton
Vision Zero activity returned to Loughton, with the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) and road safety partners delivering another highly visible day of enforcement, education and community engagement across the town and surrounding area. The operation saw activity take place across Loughton, Debden, Buckhurst Hill, and surrounding areas, with Essex Police officers targeting the...
Vision Zero Canvey Island Round Up
The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP), alongside partners, delivered another proactive and highly visible day of enforcement and engagement activity across Canvey Island, continuing efforts to improve road safety and tackle risky behaviour in Essex. The engagement team attended William Read Primary School and spoke with more than 180 children, parents and carers about...
Driving for work is one of the most significant risks facing your workforce.
With over a third of those killed or seriously injured on Essex roads involved in work-related journeys, the message to employers is clear: driving for work is one of the most significant risks facing your workforce. Businesses across Essex are being encouraged to take action on road safety this summer, as the Safer Essex...