Level Crossings: Accidents

(asked on 6th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of fatalities at level-crossings.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 13th January 2015

We must not be complacent about level crossing safety. An industry safety framework is in place to manage risks.

As the relevant safety duty holder, Network Rail is best placed to assess the risks at level crossings and ensure that the most appropriate infrastructure is in place given local circumstances.

Having already reduced risk significantly across the network, the company has set further challenging targets for risk reduction at level crossings by 2019. The Department is supporting this work through a dedicated £109 million ring-fenced fund which aims to close around a further 500 level crossings and improve safety at hundreds more of the highest risk crossings.

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