{"id":8180,"date":"2020-08-04T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roadsandtransport\/?page_id=8180"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:02:25","slug":"safety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/maintaining-roads\/safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We carry out regular highway safety inspections on roads, footways and cycleways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Safety inspections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/maintaining-roads\/highways-safety-inspections\/\">Highway Safety Policy<\/a> details how defects, that may create a danger or serious inconvenience to highway users, are dealt with through a risk-based approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A highway safety Inspection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>identifies defects that are likely to create a danger or serious inconvenience to highway users or the wider community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>determines the degree and timing of repairs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>provides condition data of the network to the Asset Management Team assisting in the management of the highway network and future maintenance programmes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>meets the statutory obligation of Devon County Council to maintain the highway in a safe condition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>provides a defence against highway claims<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inspection frequency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/maintaining-roads\/data\/\">inspection frequency of our roads<\/a> can be viewed on our map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We carry out regular highway safety inspections on roads, footways and cycleways. Safety inspections Our Highway Safety Policy details how defects, that may create a danger or serious inconvenience to highway users, are dealt with through a risk-based approach. A highway safety Inspection: Inspection frequency The inspection frequency of our roads can be viewed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1076,"featured_media":0,"parent":229,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-02 10:54:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16380,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8180\/revisions\/16380"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}