RoadSafe News – January 2020

Awards
FIREAID receives Prince Michael Premier Award FIRE AID Is an UK based NGO which brings together like-minded organisations working to improve post-crash response through donations of equipment and training to emergency services especially to countries with serious road traffic injury problems and limited resources.  Read more...
SaferAfrica wins Prince Michael Award The Consortium of the SaferAfrica project has received the prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award 2019 for its work in Africa.  Read more...
Ground-breaking project on disability and road safety honoured at 2019 PMIRSA EASST partner the Belarsian Auto Moto Touring Club (BKA) has won a 2019 Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for their ground-breaking project support by EASST on disability and road safety.  Read more...
Driving for Work initiatives recognised with Royal Award Shell India and Vision Spring – Eye Camps initiative, has been honoured with a Royal Award.  Read more...
RideFree wins Royal Award in London A pioneering study has led to the establishment of the Highways England led programme RideFree, which aims to improve the safety of young motorcyclists particularly in rural areas. It has now won a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.  Read more...
Global Road Safety Partnership – Road Policing Capacity Building Programme wins Royal Award GRSP’s Road Policing Capacity Building Programme provides technical expertise to policing agencies in low and middle-income countries.  Read more...
SAFETYcam and Highways England receive prestigious award. Carnell and Highways England have been presented with a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in London.  Read more...
Safer Road User initiatives recognised with Royal Award A number of initiatives have been honoured with a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award at a ceremony in London. These have been recognised for their contribution to road safety under the Safer Road Users category based on the five pillars of the Global Plan for a Decade of Action.  Read more...
ASEAN NCAP presented with a Prince Michael International Award ASEAN NCAP has been presented with a Prince Michael International Award for its Crash Test Laboratory at a prestigious ceremony held at The Savoy, London.   Read more...
Safer Roads initiatives honoured with Royal Awards A number of initiatives have been honoured with a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award under the Safer Roads category at a gala presentation which took place at The Savoy, London.  Read more...
Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards for Road Safety Management There are several recipients of the Prince Michael Road Safety Awards 2019 under the Road Safety Management category.   Read more...
Shell India and VisionSpring win global award for #DriveSafeIndia campaign Shell India and VisionSpring today announced that #DriveSafeIndia, a programme to provide screening and eyeglasses to more than 350 thousand Commercial Drivers and Allied Transportation Workers Across India, has been awarded a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.   Read more...
WHO receives Decade of Action Award The World Health Organization (WHO) has received the Prince Michael Decade of Action Award for its leadership in advancing the road safety agenda across the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.  Read more...
PLUS Malaysia wins prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award PLUS Malaysia Berhad (PLUS) is the first Asian highway company to receive the prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award (PMIRSA) award for its leading-edge road safety initiatives.in 2019.  Read more...
Loughborough’s lifesaving road safety research given royal recognition at The Savoy Loughborough academics were at The Savoy hotel in London today to meet HRH Prince Michael of Kent and collect awards for their pioneering research into road safety.  Read more...
Carnell honoured with Royal award for the innovative SAFETYcam solution. Carnell are honoured to announce that they have won a prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for the innovative SAFETYcam solution.  Read more...
International news
Prince Michael launches Commonwealth Road Safety Initiative Report The Commonwealth Road Safety Initiative, launched earlier this year during the UN Global Road Safety Week, is developing a framework for road injury prevention in Commonwealth countries aiming to halve deaths and serious injuries from road crashes by 2030.   Read more...
The International Road Assessment Programme: 2019 achievements Across 102 countries, the International Road Assessment Programme and its partners have Star Rated over 1 million kilometres of roads, trained nearly 2,999 engineers and influenced over 75 billion dollars worth of safer road investment, in our vision for a world free of high risk roads.  Read more...
International Transport Forum Annual Report The International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (IRTAD) has releases its 2019 annual report , which contains road safety data for 41 countries.  Read more...
UK news
Joining the Dots 2020: agenda takes shape The French Road Safety Observatory, IRAP, the Road Safety Foundation, Imperial College London, the DfT, TRL and Lancashire County Council are among the organisations that will feature on the agenda at the 2020 edition of the Data Analysts’ Conference.  Read more...
Driving at work
Fleet risk and safety survey. The latest Fleet News benchmarking survey on fleet risk and safety is now available.  Read more...
Young drivers
Nominations invited for 2020 Young Driver Road Safety Awards The 2020 Young Driver Road Safety Awards are now pen for nominations, with entries invited in six categories.  Read more...
Young Driver Focus: speakers confirmed. The 2020 Young Driver Focus event will take place at the RAC Club, Pall Mall on Tuesday 19th May.  Read more...
Safer vehicles
Do you drive one of the safest cars of 2019? The 10 safest cars of 2019 have been revealed by automotive research centre Thatcham Research.   Read more...
Safer drivers
DriverMetrics®Coaching Programme The DriverMetrics® Coaching programme offers trainers and risk management professionals an in-depth understanding of DriverMetrics®  Read more...
Motorcycle safety
Improving safety and reducing collisions and casualties The ‘PTW riders: improving safety and reducing collisions and casualties’ conference will focus on reducing casualties among powered two wheeler riders.  Read more...
Forthcoming events
3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety – 19 February 2020 RoSPA Fleet and Road Safety Event 2020. – 27 February 2020 'Joining the Dots' National Analysts' Conference 2020 – 3 March 2020 Fleet News Awards – 11 March 2020 Young Driver Focus 2020 – 19 May 2020 CIECA Congress 2020. – 4 June 2020 National Transport Research Awards 2020 – 20 November 2020