Young Farmers attend national road safety session at Newark Showground
Young farmers from Nottinghamshire will attend a Brake 2young2die road safety session at Newark Showground on Saturday 14 September 2013 as part of a nationwide campaign to save lives on rural roads.
The course is particularly relevant in Nottinghamshire after a recent study produced in support of NFYFC’s Drive it Home campaign, highlighted that in Nottinghamshire there is an average of 215 young drivers from rural areas who are involved in injury collisions each year. The figures show one in 105 young rural drivers in Nottinghamshire is involved in an injury collision each year.
Young rural drivers across England and Wales are nearly twice (44%) as likely to be involved in a collision compared to young urban drivers.
The National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs’ (NFYFC) Drive it Home campaign, supported by NFU Mutual, aims to reduce the number of incidents involving young drivers. NFYFC wants to create a team of Drive it Home champions throughout the Federation’s 46 counties in England and Wales and 25 are set to become champions in the East Midlands.
The session, which is free thanks to funding from NFU Mutual and the Rural Youth Trust, runs from 11am until 4pm and will equip members with all they need to know to run their own 2young2die training courses back in their clubs.
NFYFC’s National Chairman of Council Milly wastie said:
“These courses are so important to our Drive it Home campaign and will help to change attitudes to driving. I have been on the 2young2die course and it has definitely changed my attitude when I’m behind the wheel. By the end of the session, our members will be equipped with the knowledge and materials to take back to their clubs and communities to teach their own 2young2die courses.”
This course is one of seven that Brake is running for YFC members and NFYFC has chosen locations in each Area of the national Federation to give all members opportunity to take part. The campaign also includes practical driving sessions with a company called Drive Doctors and places on these courses have also been subsidised by NFU Mutual.
The majority of NFYFC’s 25,000 members live and work in rural communities putting them in a high risk category for incidents on rural roads.
