Students in Cleveland make road safety pledge

11.17 | 20 September 2021 |

Cleveland’s Strategic Road Safety Partnership visited colleges throughout the area last week to deliver road safety advice to students during Freshers’ Week.

The partnership comprises Cleveland Police, the police and crime commissioner for Cleveland, Cleveland Fire Brigade, National Highways (previously Highways England) and the four local authorities in the Cleveland area.

Its efforts to engage with students was also timed to coincide with Project EDWARD – the annual UK wide road safety campaign backed by government, emergency services, highways agencies, road safety organisations and businesses.

Project EDWARD aimed to provide a platform to showcase some of the best work being done around the UK to promote the five pillars of the ‘Safe System’ approach:

  • Safe vehicles
  • Safe road use
  • Safe speed
  • Safe roads and roadsides
  • Post crash care

Students were asked to sign the Project EDWARD pledge and confirm they are willing to play their part in creating a road environment that is free from death or serious injury.

Students who did make the pledge were invited to don 60s attire and jump aboard the Project EDWARD campervan for a photo ‘with usually hilarious results’.


 

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