IAM IN BID TO FIND 2006 ROAD SAFETY CHAMPION
18 April 2006 - IAM Institute of Advanced Motorists

This spring sees the IAM mount its annual mission to find the individual whose personal contribution to road safety is worthy of national recognition.

The IAM Dominic Fox Award seeks to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding road safety work, particularly activity that has directly or indirectly contributed to saving lives of young drivers and riders.

''The need has never been more urgent. Young driver deaths have doubled in just five years,'' said IAM Chief Executive Christopher Bullock.

''It is only through bold, creative initiatives in the education of young drivers that this awful trend can be halted,'' he said.

Recently released Department for Transport figures show that a third more young drivers were killed in 2004 than in 2000, despite a halving in the proportion of young people with driving licences. The number of deaths per 100,000 young licence holders has increased from 9.7 in 2000 to 19.2 in 2004. And worryingly, this is against an overall downward trend.

''The Fox Award is now established as one of the regular fixtures on the road safety calendar,'' said Mr Bullock.

''Candidates may be new to road safety work but those who have made a contribution over many years, and received recognition by others, are not excluded.''

Previous winners of the Dominic Fox Award from the IAM were PC Nobby Clark from Cheshire, Sam Geddes of Adelaide Insurance in Belfast and Simon Ettinghausen of Bexley Borough Council. The first winner of the award was also a PC, John Spencer of Northamptonshire Police, in 2002.

Nomination forms can be downloaded from the IAM website, iam.org.uk (in PDF
file format for printing).

The deadline for nominations is 31 July 2006.

www.iam.org.uk

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