Road Safety Week happens every year to teach children how to stay safe on the roads. This includes being safe when walking, riding a bike, taking public transport, or driving in a car.
This year, the theme was “After the Crash - Every Road Victim Counts.” Road Safety Week ran from 18 to 22 November.
On the first day, Councillor Tracey Rawlins, Executive Member for Environment and Transport, shared a video about the week’s events. She talked about how important it is to teach children about road safety.
What Did We Teach?
The events focused on important road safety topics, including:
- Safe roads: How to stay safe when walking or biking.
- Safe vehicles: How to be safe in cars and buses.
- Safe speeds: Why driving too fast can be dangerous.
- Inclusion: Making sure all people are safe, no matter how they travel.
Events and Activities
In partnership with Brake, a national road safety charity, we ran many events. These were supported by:
- Greater Manchester Police
- NSL (Parking Services)
- Local schools
The events that took place were:
- 29 Theatre Workshops in schools attended by pupils across years 1 to 6
- 7 “Get Winter Ready” Bike Repair Sessions took place
- 106 parking patrols were carried out at primary, secondary schools and colleges across the city during the campaign. 63 Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) were issued for illegal parking
- Junior Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) sessions took place at Rackhouse Primary School and Acacias Primary Schools
- School Streets activities took place at Cavendish Primary School and pupils designed a leaflet in support of the Road Safety Week campaign
- 16 speed toolkits containing road safety information were delivered to primary schools
- Good Egg Car Seat Safety events were delivered in Longsight and Wythenshawe. From the residents we spoke to, it highlighted 82% were not fitting child car seats correctly in their vehicles. Get advice on child car seat safety
- Speed checks were carried out by Greater Manchester Police on Hyde Road, Gorton and Simonsway in Wythenshawe
- Days of Action were organised by MCC North, Central and South Neighbourhood Teams in partnership GMP, NSL Patrol Officers, local schools and residents to address parking, poor driver behaviour and raise awareness of air pollution and promote alternative ways to travel to school without using the car