{"id":1478,"date":"2021-10-06T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/?page_id=1478"},"modified":"2021-10-06T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T09:01:05","slug":"paul-ripley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/festival-content\/paul-ripley\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ripley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1478\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1478-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1478-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1478-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-1478-0-1-0\" 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\">Driver Distraction: Drivers on their Phones - Unsafe at any Speed<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>The prolific and illegal use of phones when driving has become a road safety pandemic of colossal proportions for every UK fleet. This presentation provides insight into the problem, and how it can be effectively eliminated.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"widget-title\">Paul Ripley, Founder &amp; CEO, Distraction 999<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1481\" src=\"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Paul-Ripley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Paul-Ripley.jpg 400w, https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Paul-Ripley-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In a career spanning four decades, Paul Ripley has become a world-respected authority on safer driving and driver safety\/behaviour education. He was awarded the coveted 'HRH Prince Michael Special Road Safety Award' for his contribution to road and driver safety improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Paul had the distinction of being called 'God's Chauffeur' by The Daily Telegraph, in which he wrote a weekly safer driving column for almost a decade. He was also known as 'The Driving Doctor' when he appeared as the driving safety guru on Channel 4 TV's 'Driven' programme.<\/p>\n<p>Paul authored a book titled 'Expert Driving' and has written articles for leading publications such as The Telegraph, Auto Express, EVO Magazine, AA Magazine and Business Car Manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1478-0-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prolific and illegal use of phones when driving has become a road safety pandemic of colossal proportions for every UK fleet. This presentation provides insight into the problem, and how it can be effectively eliminated. Paul Ripley, Founder &amp; CEO, Distraction 999 In a career spanning four decades, Paul Ripley has become a world-respected [&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\/1478"}],"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=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1478\/revisions\/1482"}],"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=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}