PCSP road safety project wins top award

A Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Policing and Community Safety Partnership (PCSP) project was recognised at Northern Ireland’s first Road Safety Awards at Cultra Manor, Belfast last week.

The awards, presented by UTV’s Frank Mitchell, honoured those across the country that have worked tirelessly to improve road safety in their communities.

Causeway Coast and Glens PCSP was highly commended in the Best Public Sector Project category for its 2Fast2Soon car simulator concept.

The project came about due to the growing issue of dangerous driving throughout the Borough.

Reports of young people driving dangerously and ‘doughnutting’ on rural roads during the early hours - as well as large numbers of youth congregating in different areas in their cars - have risen throughout the area.

Causeway Coast and Glens PCSP Vice Chair Leanne Abernethy says the simulator delivered a hard-hitting message to its target group.

“This was a concept to educate drivers by means of giving them an experience of being in a crash,” she says.