Spreading the message at East Riding schools during Road Safety Week

Thursday, 14 November 2024

Pupils across the East Riding will be encouraged to stay safer when they are out on local roads for this year’s Road Safety Week.

The road safety team at East Riding of Yorkshire Council will be visiting schools to hold a variety of training and awareness sessions during the national week, which runs from Sunday 17 to Saturday 23 November.

The team is due to hold events in colleges, primary, secondary and nursery schools in Bridlington, Beverley, Preston, Anlaby, Keyingham, Willerby, Brandesburton, Bishop Burton and Holme On Spalding Moor.

They will include theatre in education, bike safety courses, talks by school crossing patrol staff, immersive cycling reality experiences, scooter training, pedestrian skills and training for safe school journeys.

The team will also have an extra early start one morning in order to hand out free Be Bright Be Seen bike lights and hi-viz equipment to paperboys and papergirls at newsagent shops in Beverley.

Councillor Paul West, the council's cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “It’s incredibly important that our young people learn how to keep safe when they are out walking or cycling, especially now in darker weather.

“We don’t want to see any become an accident statistic which is why our road safety team is holding these events at local schools to get the message across.”

The theme for this year’s Road Safety Week is After the Crash, every road victim counts. For more information visit www.brake.org.uk/road-safety-week

The road safety team has had hard-hitting videos produced to promote the After The Crash theme, featuring interviews with local emergency professionals who have been directly affected by road accidents.

Visit the East Riding site www.eastridingroadsafety.co.uk

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