National driving safety week joins forces with Surrey emergency services
Project EDWARD educates people every year on different parts of road safety
The annual Project EDWARD road safety campaign starts this week as with a Week of Action, and the campaign will be working with Surrey and Hampshire emergency services.
The campaign has run every year since 2016 and is backed by government, national emergency services, highways agencies, road safety organisations and British businesses.
This year’s campaign includes a three-car nationwide road trip to visit some of the best examples of road safety projects.
Simon Turner, one of the partners at Project EDWARD, detailed the events that will be going on throughout the week.
“One of the biggest events we’ve got going is nationals safe speed day”, he explained.
“Every police force across the country is going to be involved in much more focused speed enforcement activity.”
Turner says that the aim of the campaign is to get drivers to “think differently about aspects of their driving so they’ve got more information when they’re out on the roads, and they’re more likely to make better decisions.”