With the clocks going back this Sunday (29 October), Devon County Council is reminding all road users to help play their part in keeping each other safe. Everyone using Devon’s roads is being urged to take extra care this autumn and winter. Motorists are asked to look out for more vulnerable road users as daylight hours are reduced and to give them plenty of time and space. Cyclists,...
Devon & Cornwall Police have responded to public concerns about dangerous drivers by carrying out a number of high-visibility patrols on the A3052. 116 vehicles were recorded driving at excessive speed in 24 hours, spread over the course of four evenings.
The A3052 is a main arterial road, spanning 27 miles running from Charmouth in Dorset to Clyst St. Mary in Devon, and has been...
New roadside posters encouraging road users to slow down for horses and their riders are being displayed in parts of Devon.
Devon County Council is supporting The British Horse Society’s (BHS) “Dead Slow” road safety campaign, teaming up with the BHS , Horses & Road Safety Awareness (HRSA) and Vision Zero South West to promote the campaign in the county.
Local residents at the junction of Aller Brake Road and St Marychurch Road were concerned about the speed of vehicles travelling towards the town centre in Newton Abbot.
So, on Tuesday, February 7, a group of Community Speedwatch volunteers, joined by Police Speed Detection Officer (SDO) Dave Burrows, set up to monitor cars on the 30 mph road.
Devon & Cornwall Police is highlighting some of the extraordinary excuses they hear from motorists who are stopped on suspicion of committing one of the ‘fatal five’ offences, in an effort to demonstrate that there are #NoExcuses when it comes to road safety.
Our officers have heard all the excuses going, but there are no excuses for breaking the law, that is the core message of...
More heavy rain is forecast for Devon this evening and throughout the weekend, and road users are being urged to take extra care on the county’s roads.
Yellow Severe Weather Warnings have been issued by the Met Office for further persistent downpours tonight and over the weekend.
Heavy rain is forecast from 9pm tonight until 9am tomorrow morning with the possibility of up to...
With holiday destinations in Cornwall hotter than the temperatures this summer Highways England is pulling out all the stops to keep staycation traffic moving on the A30.
Highways England traffic officers have been drafted in to patrol key sections of the A30 in Cornwall and Devon during the busy summer months, and are on hand to deal with everything from live lane breakdowns and road...
A number of measures to support walking and cycling have been introduced or proposed as part of the second phase of Emergency Active Travel Funding projects.
Devon was awarded almost £1.3 million from the Department for Transport to provide safer routes for pedestrians and cyclists following the reduction of public transport capacity due to social distancing requirements during the...
Car use is around 30% lower on weekdays during lockdown 2.0, according to new data released by the Department for Transport.
Weekend road use is also down sharply, a 40% drop since the tighter restrictions came into effect.
By contrast, average car use plummeted 65% during the first lockdown, while April’s Easter weekend registered the lowest level of non-weekday car traffic,...
