Shelia Ormerod has received the 2010 Lynda Chalker Award for her contribution to road safety, which has culminated in the Shiny Side Up Partnership (SSUP).
Sheila brought with her more than 30 years of ground breaking road safety education experience and a penchant for coming up with new and exciting ways to deliver key messages to difficult to reach road user groups.
The SSUP partnership was formed in response to a significant increase in fatal crashes involving sport bikes in the East Midlands region.
Sheila has driven an impressive number of initiatives for the partnership including SSUP signs on motorcycle hotspot routes, distribution of more than 500,000 ‘Think Bike’ stickers, three TV adverts, ‘Every time’ radio adverts and SSUP flash drives.
Her determination is matched by inspirational ideas which seek to inform but not nag the road user. But perhaps most important of all, her excellent communication, IT, financial and organisational skills have kept a rowdy group of road safety professionals in check for the last nine years.
Well done Sheila.
Mike Mounfield, Birmingham
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Congratulations Sheila, and well done. I am so very proud to call you my friend. I wonder what Miss Armstrong et al would have to say? Lovely photo, by the way.
Marion, Chesterfield
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Very well deserved. I have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of “Shiny Side Up” under your stewardship. You took on this responsibility in your retirement simply because you cared and chose to do what you could to help motorbikers. As a result, there are a good many more powered two wheelers “rubber side down” than there might have been.
Nigel Horsley, Leicestershire County Council
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Congratulations Sheila..it was always a pleasure to work with you..
Philippa, Warwick
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Well done Sheila! It’s great to see your commitment and dedication to road safety has finally been recognised and rewarded. We always knew you were the Queen of Road Safety!
Julie, Devon
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Nice job, Mum.
It’s difficult to quantify but just imagine the sheer number of young people, their families and their friends who have avoided the tragedy of fatal/near fatal road traffic accidents because of your efforts!
Couldn’t be happier or prouder!
Well Done!
Martin, Austin, Texas.
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Congratulations Sheila, a well deserved award. The work done by SSUP to reduce rider casualties really opened the door for a lot of the work now being done in this area.
Dave, Leeds
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