Launched only 12 months ago, the Vision Zero Community, powered by Co-Pilot, has become the go-to place for road safety professionals to collaborate, share knowledge and accelerate progress towards eliminating road deaths and serious injuries.

Among the many Masterclasses available to Co-Pilot and Vision Zero Community members, is one with the fabulous Dr Suzy Charman, Executive Director of the Road Safety Foundation UK, who has been at the heart of Safe System thinking for over two decades.

Today we celebrate one year of Co-Pilot’s Vision Zero Community. Launched just 12 months ago, the Vision Zero Community has become the go-to place for road safety professionals to collaborate, share knowledge and accelerate progress towards eliminating road deaths and serious injuries.

Anyone working in road safety knows how invaluable a quality, relevant stock media library can be. Even if you aren’t a full-time comms professional, you’ll still need images for reports, social posts, presentations and campaigns.

For too long, there’s been a gap between the road safety sector and the driving instructor profession. Both groups are committed to the same goal - safer roads - yet they have often ended up working in parallel rather than together.

Westminster Council is one of the latest organisations to join the Vision Zero Community - the UK’s only dedicated platform for professionals working to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on the roads.

At The British Horse Society (BHS), we’ve long understood the risks faced by equestrians on the road. With riders and carriage drivers often having no option but to use roads to access off-road routes, their safety is a concern we have been trying to significantly influence for years. Our mission is simple: to ensure every equestrian can feel safe and respected when enjoying the great outdoors with their horse.

When I began as a Partnership Co-ordinator five years ago, Warwickshire’s Road Safety Partnership was in its infancy. Terms like Vision Zero and Safe System were only just beginning to surface in conversations, often spoken tentatively, without a clear plan or shared understanding.

Taking a snapshot of one day, how would you describe yourself? Maybe in a few different ways through the hours: perhaps caregiver at home in the morning, student learning in a midday webinar, leader in the afternoon while working with a colleague who is navigating a new task.

A growing number of UK road safety professionals are joining forces to tackle road deaths and serious injuries - recognising that, however committed and collaborative local efforts may be, they cannot deliver the scale of change needed without leadership and support from national Government.

Newly released data reveals a stark truth: over 2.15 million vehicles failed their MOT in 2023–24 due to tyre defects.
Even more alarming, more than 750,000 of those had been issued tyre-related advisories in the previous test - warnings that appear to have gone unheeded until the risk became critical.

Surrey RoadSafe is the latest organisation to join the Vision Zero Community – the UK’s only dedicated platform for professionals committed to eliminating road deaths and serious injuries.

On paper, they couldn’t be more different. George, a popular YouTuber with a loyal following among car modification enthusiasts. Owen Messenger, a road policing sergeant dedicated to reducing risk on the roads. But what began as a knock on the door quickly became one of the most impactful road safety partnerships in UK history.

Across the three counties of West Mercia (Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire), mature drivers have been a regular fixture on our annual engagement and campaigns plan for a number of years, but we didn’t seem to have an engaging product or campaign to deliver to them.

I can always remember a watershed moment when I first took notice of motoring policy which was when I was queuing for fuel at a petrol station at the height of the fuel protests in 2000.