Camborne College students to hear about driver safety (From This is The West Country)

Camborne College students to hear about driver safety

8:40am Thursday 2nd July 2009

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(0)

The next generation of young drivers at Camborne Science and Community College will be told all about safe driving today.

The year 12 students, some of whom are already driving, will hear a presentation from Cornwall Council’s road safety unit.

The programme, which is in its eleventh year, has been designed to inform and influence the next generation of drivers, allowing them to make educated decisions about safer driving.

Greg Foxwell, road safety project co-ordinator said: “Young drivers in the 17 – 24 year old age range are a very vulnerable, inexperienced group, involved in disproportionately high numbers of collisions on our roads.

“Research indicates that one in five drivers have a collision in the first year after passing their driving test.”

In 2007 in Cornwall there were 616 car and motorcycle casualties aged 17 to 24. Nine of these young car casualties occurred in Camborne.

He added: “The road safety unit work in partnership with the Driving Standards Agency, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, Cornwall Fire Brigade and Trading Standards to bring the programme to establishments in Cornwall.

“We make young drivers more knowledgeable about the risks and hazards they face on the roads and ways in which to combat them.”

• Print
• Email
• Share
• Comments(0)