Local support for national road safety week
An innovative scheme is being run in Warwickshire’s secondary schools in a bid to drive home the young driver safety message as part of Road Safety Week.
During national Road Safety Week (6 –12 November) Warwickshire’s Road Safety Unit will continue to support this year’s theme of young driver safety, by delivering the scheme in secondary schools called Driving Ambitions which runs throughout the school year.
The scheme, which has already been successfully running for two years, is designed to educate and encourage young drivers of the future to consider the impact speeding can have on both themselves and others. The objective is to prevent young people of today becoming tomorrow’s casualties.
Almost 80% of secondary schools in Warwickshire are currently involved in the scheme, which begins in Year Group 8 and continues until pupils are in sixth form.
Stan Milewski, Warwickshire County Council’s Senior Road Safety Officer, said: “Young drivers are at a much higher risk of having a crash than older drivers and are therefore at risk of losing their lives or being seriously injured on the road, often killing or injuring their young passengers or other road users too.”
For further information about the scheme, please contact Brian Pierce on 01926 418037.