{"id":1243,"date":"2021-09-08T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/?page_id=1243"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:37:42","slug":"michael-mcdonnell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/festival-content\/michael-mcdonnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael McDonnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1243\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1243-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1243-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1243-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-1243-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Developing Safe Road Users Through Lifelong Learning<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>Safer Road Users is one of the five pillars of the Safe System and, fundamental to the Scottish philosophy is the belief that road safety skills have to be nurtured from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will cover Road Safety Scotland\u2019s role in this process.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\">Michael McDonnell, Director, Road Safety Scotland<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1244 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Michael-McDonnell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Michael-McDonnell.jpg 640w, https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Michael-McDonnell-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Michael-McDonnell-436x272.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael McDonnell began his career as a primary school teacher before gaining a Diploma in Theology and a Degree in Divinity. His career in road safety began as a local road safety officer with Strathclyde Regional Council before joining RoSPA as road safety manager (Scotland).<\/p>\n<p>Michael was the longest serving member of the Scottish Road Safety Campaign (SRSC) before taking up the post of director in 2004. One of his early contributions to the new role was to change the name of the organisation from the Scottish Road Safety Campaign to Road Safety Scotland in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is an advocate of the lifelong learning approach to road safety education, based on the fact that the types of attitudes and behaviours which young drivers exhibit are laid down at a very early age, probably before they leave primary school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1243-0-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safer Road Users is one of the five pillars of the Safe System and, fundamental to the Scottish philosophy is the belief that road safety skills have to be nurtured from the very beginning. The presentation will cover Road Safety Scotland\u2019s role in this process. Michael McDonnell, Director, Road Safety Scotland Michael McDonnell began his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-notitle.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}