Senior police officers have discussed measures to keep people safe on the roads, particularly around schools.
Chief Inspector Tom Ibbetson says education and engagement are key:
"We are developing a programme for mature drivers, as we discussed earlier on, around education for them and their families. Young driver education is an evolving project and and somewhere we continue to develop, we're looking to reintroduce junior road safety officers across primary schools and would be really keen to engage schools and education colleagues around that.
"Enhancing our seasonal engagement activity, especially around the festive season and special events and continuing development of the road safety team, who were a small team within North Yorkshire Police really focused on our prevention and early intervention work around road safety."
Chief Inspector Ibbetson says there are measures in place to try and change behaviours on the region's roads.
But as well as that, educating primary school children on road safety will also be prioritised:
"So this is the idea behind education within the safeguarding curriculum in schools for peer support, as well as the the wide array of speakers that schools will have coming to speak to pupils. We obviously hope that will develop outside of schools into the wider school community, but that wouldn't be specifically targeted at drivers, but more the pupils."
Road safety has been a hot topic in North Yorkshire after Police say the first fixed speed camera in the county, erected in Sherburn, was vandalised within hours of it's installation.
Meanwhile, Chief Constable Tim Forber is passionate about 20 mile per hour zones:
"20 mile an hour zones outside schools are really welcome. I think they work. I think it's really important. And I think having had three children and taking them to school regularly, when you see people speeding up by schools, it is incredibly dangerous. When they're implemented, they need to be implemented alongside traffic calming measures as well.
"So they almost enforce themselves. And actually, if you create the traffic calming measures, whether that's one-way systems, speed humps to slow down the traffic, they almost enforce themselves, so I absolutely commend it. The implementation of 20 mile an hour zones, they need to have the broader road engineering to accompany them as well."
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