Driving safety forward
October 1st 2007

The Princess Royal learned all about the national education programme to make UK roads safer by tackling drink driving, speeding and careless driving during a recent visit to Shropshire. She visited the TTC Group (Telford Training Consultants), a company that offers corporate and public driver training – and met motorists whose lives have been affected by drink driving. The motorists have each attended an 18 hour rehabilitation course for offenders and have helped raise awareness about the consequences of drink driving. HRH learned from Shropshire businessman Vernon Hogg, dealer principal at Mitsubishi and Honda, about how companies are now educating their employees to improve driver safety. “We talked about how we had brought alcohol awareness to Shropshire companies with 100 put through our courses over the past year. The companies employ 10 000 and run 2000 vehicles. She was very aware about the employers duty of care although a lot of employers are not aware that they are responsible for their vehicles,” said Hogg. The road safety experts put on tailor made courses, so that firms can cut the number of accidents among company drivers and reduce driving costs.

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