Speed and distance focus for GMFRS road safety day

Speed and distance focus for GMFRS road safety day

Distance and speed are the two key issues that firefighters and staff will focus on when they take part in a national road safety day on Friday.

Crews and community safety staff are involved in events and activities around the county that should get people thinking more carefully about keeping their speed down and driving at the right distance.

The Chief Fire Officers Association National Road Safety takes place on Friday, July 6.

Councillor David Acton, Chairman of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Authority, said: “Firefighters and community safety staff hope to make a real impact on people right across Greater Manchester on Friday.

“Our crews go out and rescue people from collisions every day – which has a massive effect on the victims, their families and the firefighters themselves – so it’s very important that we try and help people to be more careful when they’re out on the roads.

“The message from National Road Safety day is simple: keep your distance and watch your speed.”

Manchester crews and staff will be taking over Albert Square for the second time in a month to make an impact on shoppers and workers in the city centre and will be joined by Greater Manchester Police and a number of other agencies.

Community safety advisors and volunteers will be targeting shoppers with a stand at the Trafford Centre.

Community safety staff and volunteers will be at Asda stores in Rochdale and Pilsworth to talk to people driving to do their shopping and Bury staff will be doing the same at Tesco in the town.

Wigan crews and staff will be on Market Place in the town centre demonstrating what it is like to have to cut a victim of a road traffic collision from a car.

Bolton crews and staff will be working with police and ambulance colleagues to give the same hard-hitting message to visitors to the Blackrod Scarecrow Festival and showing how all three emergency services work together at the scene of a collision.

GMFRS staff and firefighters will be at the events detailed between 10.00am and 4.00pm.