Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service has been actively engaged in community safety for many years and we continue to work in partnership to reduce the  number of killed or seriously injured on Cumbrian roads.  The outstanding work carried out by our service has already seen significant results in reductions, however we continually strive to build on that success.  Our RTC reduction activity is a component part of the wider partnership which has developed into a county wide strategy to reduce KSIs on Cumbrian roads.

Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service recognises this issue cannot be resolved by itself alone. We continue to develop and maintain partnerships to provide innovative and pro-active ways of working to deliver our strategy. As part of the Cumbria Road Safety Partnership which includes   CAPITA, Amey Mouchel, Cumbria Constabulary, Cumbria Highways, Cumbria PCT and the Highways Agency we are supported to deliver Road Awareness Training to all year 10 pupils in the County. On a local level we have worked with many partners including Malcolm Wilson, liasing with the press, victims of RTC's and their families to develop more innovative ways of engaging young people. 

In short, the  Rescue Service endeavours to improve road safety and casualty care and recovery, through the following work streams and based upon the principles of the 6  E's

• Engage  - this is our unique contribution. The FRS is trusted, we have credibility, a proven track record of community safety delivery, we are good role models, have an engendering reputation, respect as well as a freshness and vitality for the agenda. 
• Educate  and increase awareness in road safety issues - we have access to the high risk groups on a regular basis and we are already out there working within communities, and consider the need to train our people to ensure that they deliver correct and consistent information.
• Emergency response  - this is our core statutory business
• Engineer  out the problem - we can work with partners to identify the high risk patterns on the regions roads and work with others to identify the engineered solution including vehicle construction and extrication principles
• Enforce  poor driver /road user behaviour- we can work with police, local authority road safety officers and others to promote and carry out educational and awareness programmes and in some cases in lieu of fines/other penalties
• Evaluate  the impact of the event and our prevention interventions-by developing multi agency data sharing and intelligence protocols to influence future interventions and to enable us to track the impact of what we and our partners do.