Road safety

Road safety requests

Driver training schemes
- Courses which aim to improve the driving skills of those involved in accidents and increase safety on the roads.
School crossing patrols
- Request a school crossing patrol, or apply to become a school crossing warden.
Closed circuit television (CCTV)
- CCTV is used in certain public areas to protect your community, including town centres, roads, airports, and on some forms of public transport. The images can be used as evidence in court.
Pedestrian crossings
- Highway Code information about pedestrian crossings.
Speed cameras: West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership
- Camera locations, types of camera and information that the cameras gather.
Traffic counts in Kirklees
- Traffic volume and the places where it is counted in Kirklees.

If you ask for a speed limit to be lowered, raised or extended:
- we ask the police for their view.
- we also consider things like the road's alignment, level of activity, its accident record and the impact of speeding vehicles on the community.
A Speed limit Order to change a speed limit takes approximately 9 months to complete.

Our pedestrian training scheme involves a number of sessions with each child near a road over several weeks. It aims to reduce child pedestrian casualties and to improve their skills, knowledge, behaviour and hazard awareness.
Cycling training is aimed at children aged 10 years and over. It teaches basic cycle skills on quiet roads near to school. Courses usually take place over 4 or 5 consecutive sessions. Each session lasts about 1½ hours. Children must own their own cycle to take part. Helmets and fluorescent jackets are provided.

We monitor accident data provided by West Yorkshire Police to highlight where clusters of accidents occur.
We investigate requests for the introduction of safety schemes, but our priority is dealing with areas where accidents are occurring now.

Streetworks and roadworks with temporary traffic lights have a courtesy board placed by the developer that is carrying out the works.
The board tells you the company name and their telephone number to contact if you have anything to report or request.