Royal Borough of Kingston

The Road Safety and Travel Awareness Unit at the Royal Borough of Kingston have been awarded the prestigious London Accident Prevention Council’s (LAPC) Laurie Bunn Road Safety Award for their outstanding contribution to road safety and casualty reduction in London. The award was presented on the 25th July at the St Bride Institute, London during the LAPC’s Annual General Meeting.

The Borough has a proud record of innovation when it comes to engaging young people and was commended last year for its Junior Road Safety Officer scheme.

In September 2006 a further innovation was developed to extend this engagement to the secondary age range.

The Road Safety and Travel Awareness Student Council consists of representatives from each of the borough’s secondary schools. Two students from years 10 or 12 (non-exam years) are elected by their peers for the period of one year to feed ideas and concerns into meetings held termly in the Council Chamber. The students have generated some very positive and effective outcomes which include:

• Design of a Bikeability Level 3 flyer
• Creation of a local radio advert highlighting the dangers of mobile phone use
• The arrangement of cycle maintenance lessons in school
• Creation of a Highway Code test paper for use at a town show
• Generation of a major postal competition aimed at 1000 young drivers, involving First Car magazine

The Royal Borough of Kingston’s ceaseless quest to make casualty reduction a matter of importance to young people signifies how effective the team is in this aspect of their work.

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The Award was presented  to KRSTAT on Wednesday 25th July 2007 in the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Institute by David William MBE, GEM Motoring Assist who is also a Judge for the Laurie Bunn Award

From left to right:  Sam Merison, Jenny Yin (Student Council), Martin Ross and James Parker

Road Safety Christmas card
designed by the RB Kingston
Student Council

Just one of the positive
outcomes from this Group