Today
marks the first day of Road Safety Week, co-ordinated by Brake, the road safety
charity. This year’s initiative is to encourage everyone to “Step up for
Safe Streets” by learning about and celebrating design-led solutions that
will allow us to us roads safely and in a healthy way.
The
charity, Brake, provides a number of resources and runs numerous campaigns
throughout the year in order to help work toward their vision of a world where
everyone moves in a safe and healthy way working to stop road deaths and
injuries and support people who have been beavered or seriously injured. This
is most definitely a message that we can all get behind.
According
to the Department of Transport’s road accident and safety statistics, in the
UK, there were 25,511 seriously injured casualties in reported road traffic
accidents in 2018, with 1,784 people being killed in reported road traffic
accidents.
Brake
began running the Road Safety Week initiative in 1997 and it is now an annual
event which raises awareness around road safety. Individuals, schools and
organisations can get involved in this years initiative. Individuals can
step up by pledging to use roads safely and minimise vehicle
use. Regardless of whether you are a driver, you can consider making the Brake
Pledge and do so here.
Here
at Ramsdens Solicitors, we encourage all our clients and colleagues to use the
roads safely and in a healthy way. With so many avoidable and needless
injuries and deaths on the roads, Ramsdens are supportive of the work that
Brake do. While positive steps are being taken to improve road safety,
unfortunately accidents still do happen and our attentive Personal Injury
team does all it can to provide assistance and support to injured people
and their families. We assist our clients who have been injured through no
fault of their own, by providing them with legal guidance and in obtaining
rehabilitation and sums to help them while they adjust and in the long
term.
To
learn more about Brake and their work, please take a look at their website.
Alternatively, if you have any accident related queries, including those that
relate to road traffic accidents and would like some guidance, do not hesitate
to get in touch with an experienced member of our team on 01484 821 500 or email [email protected].