Project EDWARD – let’s keep safe on the roads
Safety experts at Bury Council are asking all road users to play their part in Project EDWARD – European Day Without A Road Death – on Wednesday 21 September.
Safety experts at Bury Council are asking all road users to play their part in Project EDWARD – European Day Without A Road Death – on Wednesday 21 September.
Three sessions to help parents install the correct child car seats have been hailed as a major success.
Parents could receive life-saving advice by attending one of three clinics on installing the correct car seat for their child.
The Child Accident Prevention Trust is asking road users to ‘turn off technology for safety’ ahead of its annual Child Safety Week (6–12 June).
Thirty hover boards have been seized by trading standards officers in Bury over safety concerns.
Bury Council is backing this year’s Road Safety Week organised by the charity Brake, which runs from 23 to 29 November.
Drivers are being urged to prepare themselves and their vehicles for travelling in bad weather this autumn and winter.
A fall in the number of people injured on Bury roads has been welcomed by safety officers at Bury Council.
Five local tattoo parlours have signed up to a new hygiene rating scheme designed to improve standards and assure customers.
Road safety officers will be helping cyclists and pedestrians at an event held at Bury’s Vue Cinema on The Rock on Wednesday 28 October.
Staying safe is the message from Road Safety Radio, which launches a week of programmes starting on Monday 28 September.
Work will start on 1 September to signalise the junction of Bury Old Road/Whittaker Lane, Prestwich which will include pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities.
Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.