07/08/2024
Carmarthenshire County Council’s Road Safety Team are partnering with Smyths Toys, Llanelli, to host a FREE Child Car Seat Safety Check Clinic, on Friday, 9 August 2024, 11am – 6pm, at Smyths Toys, Llanelli.
This service is free of charge and aims to provide peace of mind to parents, guardians and those responsible for taking children in their vehicles, that their car seats are safely secured to protect their precious cargo.
Child car seat safety is of utmost importance when it comes to protecting little ones whilst travelling in a vehicle. In the UK, children must use a child car seat until they are 12 years old or 135cm tall, whichever comes first. It is essential to ensure that the seat is suitable and installed securely in your vehicle and that the seat is appropriate for your child to provide maximum protection in the event of a crash.
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06/08/2024
The Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme (SHARP) is a motorcycle helmet safety consumer information scheme launched by the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) in 2007, following research by TRL revealing the differences in the safety performance of motorcycle helmets available in Great Britain.
The SHARP scheme promotes the importance of motorcycle helmets and advises on their correct fitment, while providing an independent objective assessment of the level of impact safety protection that a helmet model would provide the wearer during a collision.
As a consumer information scheme, it is important that SHARP understands and meets the needs of the motorcyclists that will use it. The SHARP survey aims to gather insights into your riding and helmet purchase behaviour and your understanding and use of the SHARP scheme as a rider in the UK.
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30/07/2024
All work to improve pedestrian facilities and provide safer routes to school in Hawthorn has now been completed - to complement the opening of modern education facilities for the community this September, Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC has announced.
The overall scheme has also been completed in time for an official Park and Ride Facility to operate in Hawthorn during the National Eisteddfod of Wales, which is being held in Pontypridd and Rhondda Cynon Taf from August 3-10.
Using significant Welsh Government funding for 2024/25, the Hawthorn Safe Routes in Communities scheme has focused on improving Cardiff Road, School Lane and Ynyslyn Road - key routes for pupils and families walking and cycling to Hawthorn Primary School and Hawthorn High School each day.
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30/07/2024
Child car seat safety is of utmost importance when it comes to protecting children whilst travelling in a vehicle. In the UK, children must use a child car seat until they are 12 years old or 135cm tall, whichever comes first. It is essential to ensure that the seat is installed correctly to provide maximum protection in the event of a crash.
To help parents ensure that their child car seats are installed correctly, Carmarthenshire County Council offers free child car seat checking clinics. These clinics are run by accredited child car seat advisors in the road safety team, who can check that:
- The seat is suitable for the vehicle
- The seat is fitted securely in the vehicle
- The seat is appropriate for your child
At these clinics, parents can also receive guidance on choosing the right seat for their child.
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19/07/2024
Are you unemployed and struggling to secure work due to lack of transport? Then a new moped hire scheme could be your ticket to a brighter future!
The newly launched Wheels2Work initiative in Torfaen allows eligible participants to hire one of the four brand new mopeds for up to six months.
The scheme will also cover the cost of Compulsory Basic Training licences, which drivers need to ride mopeds legally on public roads.
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16/07/2024
Last week, South Wales Police officers carried out action to tackle illegal and anti-social use of e-bikes and bike theft in Swansea city centre as part of Operation Lathyrus.
The operation, which was set up in response to continued incidents of bike thefts and anti-social bike use in the city centre, has seen numerous complaints received from concerned members of the public around the speed that e-bikes are being ridden around the city centre area.
On Friday July 12, officers were deployed to several locations around the city, with a bike-marking tent and stand set up in Castle Gardens. Officers provided education and crime prevention advice to bike users, and utilised bike-marking kits to provide them with a unique code that can be registered to the Selectamark website - selectamark.co.uk - to provide police with an instant way of identifying the owner of a stolen bike.
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15/07/2024
Road Safety Wales is highlighting the vulnerability of horses and their riders through a campaign which reminds drivers of their responsibilities when sharing road space with equestrian road users.
The campaign posters, aligned to the latest Highway Code, have been made available to all 22 Local Authorities in Wales.
Teresa Ciano, Chair of the partnership said, “Our thanks go to the British Horse Society for providing invaluable data via the incident reporting section of their website. This has helped ensure the roadside advice can be located where most needed, at incident hotspot locations as well as on routes frequently used by the equestrian community.”
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10/07/2024
In Wrexham on Wednesday 17 July, local businesses are invited to go along to Redwither Tower for an excellent opportunity to get involved in an open discussion and information sharing event around active and sustainable travel.
The event takes place 10am-12pm in the Atrium, on the building’s third floor, and offers opportunities to gain insights from a variety of guest speakers including Wrexham’s Transport Strategy team.
The team will present active travel infrastructure ideas for Wrexham Industrial Estate, and using an interactive map they’ll ask attendees to suggest improvements and highlight any difficulties or missing links across the industrial estate.
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08/07/2024
An update from GoSafe, the Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership.
GoSafe work with the Highways Authorities in Wales to enforce safety camera schemes.
Fixed cameras are installed where the collision risk is highest and encourage people to drive within the speed limits, ensuring that everyone is safer on our roads.
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03/07/2024
Newtown's new cycle and pedestrian active travel bridge was successfully lifted into place on Saturday 29 June.
Following a short delay due to unfavourable weather conditions, the new 53-metre-long bridge was hoisted into position over the River Severn on Saturday afternoon.
The large crane dominated the skyline of the town for most of the week, but unusually gusty wind conditions meant that the lift was delayed for a couple of days. Thankfully the weather turned calmer at the weekend allowing the crews on site to carry out all the necessary safety checks and finally manoeuvre the large superstructure carefully into place.
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