Cheshire officer educates more than 800 people on how to stay safe on the road in one month

Cheshire Constabulary’s dedicated Road Safety Education Officer has spent the last month delivering presentations and engaging with over 800 people across Cheshire to make our roads safer.

Police Constable Darren Daniels has delivered presentations in colleges and schools across Warrington, Chester, Macclesfield and Northwich – educating students about the Fatal 5; unnecessary risks of using mobile phones, speeding, driving while under the influence of drink or drugs, not wearing a seatbelt and driving without due care and attention. 

Nearly all collisions that officers attend are preventable but when any motorists on the road start taking unnecessary risk on one of the Fatal 5’s - risk of a collision increases.

 Elsewhere PC Daniels has also delivered a ‘Drive to Survive’ presentation to different organisations as well as engaging with members of the public at a road safety event in Chester – specifically focussing on the close pass rule when overtaking cyclists.

PC Daniels said: “As a police officer with nearly 27 years’ service and over 22 years spent on roads policing I have witnessed some truly terrible and heart breaking scenes. I became a Family Liaison Officer (FLO) in 2003 and have been involved with informing more families of the worst news possible than I actually remember.

“I now use this experience in my role as the forces roads safety education officer and talk to young people who are generally 16 and above, I point out what can go wrong, how fast things go wrong and the penalties any driver can incur when they choose poor driving over driving within the law.

“I ask drivers if they think the role of an FLO is an easy one and how they would feel if I had to come bearing some awful news, and I also explain to people the last thing any police officer wants to do is knock on someone’s door and tell them a loved one isn’t coming home. 

“We all share the road so let’s do it safely and get home to our families.”

Pictured - PC Darren Daniels at the Roads Safety event in Chester City Centre.