Police forces crack down on drivers speeding with their October Project Edward campaign.
For 24 hours from 7.00am Wednesday 19th October police officers all over the UK will double down their efforts to encourage compliance by drivers with the speed limits. Although project Edward is a week of actions from the 17th October – 21st October 2022 covering many other areas:
From the Project Edward website (post)
Chief Constable Jo Shiner, NPCC roads policing portfolio holder stated
“I am fully supportive of Project EDWARD and National Safe Speeds Day. I welcome the efforts by members of the Project EDWARD team to highlight the benefits for all road users of understanding and choosing speeds that are legal and safe because we know lower speeds mean fewer road deaths.”
Companies have a corporate and social responsibility to ensure that all their drivers are trained in speed awareness.
Why should a company care whether their drivers speed surely their drivers will just be prosecuted?
- Speeding is the most common offence, it’s endemic. 2.
- There is casual link between speeding and fatal accidents with 1 person being killed per day due to drivers speeding too fast for the conditions or the speed limit.2.
- The risk of death is 4 x more likely at an impact of 40mph than 30 mph.
- Just under 2 million drivers are prosecuted for speeding each year.
- The road is the most dangerous workplace and if a company has 5 or more employees it must have written records that it has assessed the risk of driving as a work activity and introduced policies and procedures to reduce that risk.
- Reducing the risk of speeding results in:
- Fewer fatalities and injuries
- Fewer insurance claims
- Fewer prosecutions
- Fewer disqualifications
- Lower fuel costs
- Lower damage costs
- Lower administration costs
How can companies change their driver minds and behaviour in relation to speeding?
- Implement policies and procedures written by motoring experts
- Ensure that those policies and procedures are communicated effectively to drivers
- Implement a good fleet management system such as Auriga Fleet
- Monitor your driver behaviour by regular driving licence checks/ notice of intended prosecutions and/or trackers
- Ensure that all your drivers are appropriately trained and where necessary obtain one to one training.
- Review policies and procedures regularly and update drivers on changes within motoring law.
Auriga Fleet are able to offer all the above in one complete package for more information call us on 012708 509496 OR visit us at
https://auriga-fleet.co.uk/fleet-management-manage-your-fleet/
For driver training see our online training
https://drivebright.auriga-advocates.com/course/speeding
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