Road Safety Week
Join Gloucestershire in Road Safety Week 2026 from November 15-21. Help raise awareness about road safety, support road victims, and participate in local events. Sign up for a free action pack and make a difference in your community!
Road Safety Week 2026 – Gloucestershire
15 to 21 November 2026
Road Safety Week is Brake's biggest annual road safety campaign, and here in Gloucestershire we're proud to take part. Every year, thousands of schools, organisations and communities across the UK get involved to share important road safety messages and join the call for safe roads for everyone. This year, we're encouraging Gloucestershire residents, schools, businesses and communities to get involved and help make our county's roads safer.
Safe people on the move
Whether we walk, wheel, ride or drive, we all share Gloucestershire's roads when we are on the move.
Whoever we are, and however we travel, whether that's the school run in Cheltenham, commuting along the Cycle Spine between Gloucester and Bishop's Cleeve, or a rural journey through the Cotswolds, using our roads safely helps to protect ourselves and each other.
Those with the potential to do the most harm must take the greatest responsibility for safeguarding people who are more vulnerable on roads than them.
This Road Safety Week, we'll be learning how we can all be safe when we're on the move. Every journey and every time.
What is Road Safety Week?
Taking place each November, Road Safety Week is a national campaign run by Brake to raise awareness of the devastating impact of road death and injury, and to call for key measures to make roads safer.
Thousands of schools, organisations, emergency services, campaigners and communities take part every year, sharing important road safety messages that reach millions of people across the UK, and remembering road victims through events, fundraising and media coverage.
Road Safety Week is an opportunity to start conversations at both national and local level about how we can make Gloucestershire's roads safer. Join us as we call on Government and other stakeholders to commit to life-saving measures, and help us share the message that whoever we are, and however we travel, we can all make a difference.
This Road Safety Week, join the conversation…
- Learn how the way we drive affects our risk of being in a crash. Find out how modern technology can help us drive safely, and how the choices we make behind the wheel can make a big difference.
- People who walk and cycle are especially vulnerable on roads, accounting for more than a quarter of road deaths and injuries. Consider how we can make those journeys safer so we can all enjoy the benefits of active travel, particularly as more people in Gloucestershire take up walking and cycling along new and improved routes.
- The Highway Code's hierarchy of road users states that those with the potential to do the most harm must take the greatest responsibility for protecting more vulnerable road users. We'll be exploring what this looks like in practice, with simple tips to help you remember the hierarchy.
- We will put people at the heart of Road Safety Week, helping people whose lives have been changed by road crashes share their stories.
Get involved in Gloucestershire
Road Safety Week 2026 takes place from 15 to 21 November 2026. Everyone who registers gets access to a free Road Safety Week action pack, full of ideas and activities. Whether you're a school, workplace, community group or individual, there are plenty of ways to get involved and support safer roads across Gloucestershire.
Sign up now to take part and do something amazing for road safety.
Why is Road Safety Week important?
It's never nice to hear, but five people die on UK roads every day. Many more suffer serious, life-changing injuries leading to disability.
1 in 4 people killed on the road is a pedestrian or a cyclist, and 1 in 9 casualties is a child under the age of 16. These are not just numbers, behind every number is a grieving family whose lives have changed beyond all recognition in an instant. In Gloucestershire, every one of these losses is felt across our communities.
The good news is that road deaths and injuries are not inevitable. They are preventable tragedies, and we know the solutions that can make a difference.
Let's work together this Road Safety Week to make Gloucestershire's roads safer for everyone.
Stay Updated
For more information on events and how you can take part in Road Safety Week, follow Thinktravel on our social media platforms and visit our website regularly.
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