Local support for National Road Safety Week
The Safer Roads Partnership and West Mercia Police are lending their support over the next week to National Road Safety Week, an established week in the UK calendar set up by road safety charity Brake.
The campaign takes place every year in November and aims to give everyone an opportunity to promote road safety in their community, school or company.
This year’s national theme – ‘Too Young to Die’ highlights the amount of younger people that are either killed or seriously injured in collisions every year. Over the past three years in West Mercia xxx young people (under the age of 24) were killed in road traffic collisions and xx were seriously injured.
Local Policing teams will be undertaking a range of activity during this week to promote road safety within schools, clubs, colleges and shopping centres, giving young people the opportunity to talk to their local policing officer about various aspects of road safety.
Vicki Bristow, Communications Manager for the Safer Roads Partnership in West Mercia said:
“This week provides our communities with a timely road safety reminder and raises awareness of the risks that are present when using our roads, especially with the arrival of darker nights and worsening weather conditions. As the nights draw in it is important that all road users re-assess their journeys and account for the darker evenings. We are advising all motorists to check their vehicles and for pedestrians and cyclists to ensure they are highly visible to other road users.”
