Brake gears up for Road Safety Week
Road safety charity Brake is urging everyone to take part in its largest annual campaign, Road Safety Week, which takes place from 16-22 November.
Every year more than 1,700 people die on UK roads while another 30,000 receive serious, life-changing injuries.
The aim of Road Safety Week is reduce casualties on UK roads and to make sure that every time someone gets in a vehicle they are as safe as possible.
This year’s theme is, ‘Safe vehicles save lives’. It highlights that safe vehicles:
- prevent crashes; ADAS keeps vehicles in the right lane and below speed limits, detect hazards and brake in an emergency
- protect people inside and outside the vehicle; seatbelts, airbags and ‘forgiving’ vehicle parts protect people inside and outside the vehicle in a crash. Vehicles must pass stringent crash tests
- manage driver safety; vehicle technology detects unsafe driving behaviour and informs authorities
- are roadworthy; vehicles are maintained to the highest standards and drivers carry out checks before every journey
- record crashes; event data recorders record what happens in a crash and notify emergency services immediately.
Brake said: “Safe vehicles are an important part of the safe systems approach to road safety – a shared approach to prevent death and serious injury from road crashes. At Brake, we believe that every road crash is a preventable tragedy. We believe in a world where no one is killed or harmed on a road. Safe vehicles can help us get there.”
