Making our roads safer
We have a duty to promote road safety, reduce road danger, and prevent road crashes in the borough.
Our new engineering schemes (such as traffic calming measures and 20mph speed limits) aim to make the roads safer, while our education, publicity and training campaigns aim to help road users act sensibly.
We are working towards these road safety targets:
- 50% fewer people killed or seriously injured (applies to all road users)
- 40% fewer motorcyclists killed and seriously injured
- 60% fewer children (under 16 years) killed and seriously injured
- 25% fewer slight injuries
We are making progress on these targets, for example, compared with the average number of collisions for the period 1994-1998 there has been a 72% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured and a 14% reduction in slight injuries.
Our road safety team is putting a spotlight on the dangers faced by cyclists sharing London roads with large lorries. Read more about our Cycle-lorry danger awareness campaign
Information from GOV.UK focuses on the dangers of drink and drug driving.
If you have concerns about speeding traffic, safe places to cross the road, or other road safety concerns, please email Highways_General@lbhf.gov.uk.
We will check the speed and flow of traffic and the number of vulnerable road users (such as schoolchildren) to help us decide what road safety engineeering measures might be taken, e.g. if a new crossing is necessary.
Signal controlled crossings are the responsibility of Transport for London (TfL). If there is a fault or issue relating to these they can be reported to TfL. Report a problem with a signal controlled crossing
Traffic calming measures in Hammersmith & Fulham
Download a map of traffic calming measures in Hammersmith & Fulham (pdf)