Raising awareness of road safety to keep everyone safer on our roads

The safety of every student is the utmost priority in our school and especially when they are not at school. This term we held a ‘Road Safety Week’ as part of our PSHE programme to educate students about the dangers, reality and consequences.

Road Safety Week is a national campaign organised by Brake who are a national charity raising awareness and providing care for road victims.

It is startling the number of people who are seriously injured (30,000) or who tragically die (1,700) on UK roads each year, and despite improvements in road and car safety, these numbers have not fallen in the last decade. Behind every number is a family whose lives have been changed forever as the impact is far reaching.

As part of the week, students learnt about how to keep themselves safe and visible when riding their bikes or crossing the road, which is so important in the dark winter nights.

Students were also made aware of how to keep themselves safe as a young passenger in a car. For our older students who will soon be able to drive or likely to be passengers with 17-24 year olds, they learnt they are more likely to be involved in road accident than any other age group. They are also five times more likely to crash with a passenger in the car than driving alone. Some of the causes of accidents involve distracting the driver with a mobile phone or messing around, peer pressure to take risks or drive faster and being under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The topics covered during this week proved to be an important reminder to educate our students to help them and others in the future as well as keeping our roads in Lincolnshire safer.