PLANS to make Middlesbrough roads safer have been unveiled.
The proposals, dependent on the borough council receiving Government funding, include a programme of 20mph speed restrictions in neighbourhoods and outside schools.
An experimental 20mph speed limit on the Southfield Road area of central Middlesbrough is to be made permanent, while restrictions have been agreed for Brambles Farm and the Sutton Estate.
Speed humps, zebra crossings and road markings costing around £230,000 will be introduced in the three areas.
Engineer Brian Glover, head of the council's transport and design services, said: "We have said that by the year 2010, if we were able to meet the Government's target of accident reduction, there would be 26 people walking around who would otherwise have been killed or seriously injured.''
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