Travel Safe Bucks

Travel Safe Bucks is today launching a new road safety campaign which asks motorists ‘are you a Healthy Driver’? The campaign is being launched to coincide with Brake’s annual Road Safety Week and will be marked with a Healthy Driver event at Chesham Library next Monday, 27 th November. The Healthy Driver campaign, which has online and offline elements, draws likenesses between speeding and other behaviours that are bad for your health, such as smoking, too much sugar, and binge drinking .   In the last 10 years (up to December 2016) 2,466 people have been injured on Buckinghamshire roads as a result of collisions where the driver was either exceeding the speed limit or driving too fast for the conditions. County Councillor Mark Shaw, Cabinet Member for Transportation will be holding a Healthy Driver event at Chesham library on Monday, 27 th November. Mark explained his personal connection to the new campaign: “Road safety is very important to me, personally –...

Transport for Buckinghamshire, in partnership with the Fire Service and GEM Motoring Assist, is once again running Winter Driving Workshops ahead of the cold weather.  The workshops will be held in locations across the county, which this year includes Buckingham and Gerrards Cross Fire Stations due to demand for sessions in the north and south of the county in previous years. Workshop times and dates: Tuesday 21st November 2017 Buckingham Fire Station Thursday 23rd November 2017 Kwik Fit, High Wycombe Tuesday 28th November 2017 STS Tyre Pros, Aylesbury Thursday 30th November 2017 STS Tyre Pros, Chesham Tuesday 12th December 2017 Gerrards Cross Fire Station The workshop, which will be from 7 – 8.30pm, includes advice for driving on winter roads, what to do if you break down, preparing your car for winter, and some practical guidance such as checking tyres, and changing a wheel. All attendees will also see a demonstration of basic vehicle checks from experienced gara...