Plea to young couples to 'drive safely'

25 road safety teams and safety camera partnerships will participate in the 2007 For my girlfriend (FMG) young driver campaign, which will peak in the run up to Valentine's Day.

This year, FMG reminds young people that 'more girls die as passengers than as drivers'. DfT casualty statistics for 2005 show that 276 girls aged 17-19 years were killed or seriously injured while driving, while 373 suffered the same fate as passengers. By contrast 869 male drivers of the same age were killed or seriously injured, compared with 602 passengers.

The main campaign resources, a Valentine card and poster, bring this point home graphically - and encourage young people to 'drive carefully when you're out as a couple'. The card is distributed primarily via educational establishments - schools, sixth forms, colleges and universities.

The road safety teams and camera partnerships participating in the 2007 FMG campaign are: Bath & North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Bracknell Forest, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Calderdale, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Essex, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Safety Camera Partnership, Hertfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, North Somerset, Oxfordshire, Peterborough, South Gloucestershire, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk, Sussex Safety Camera Partnership, Thurrock, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead, and Wokingham.

For further information about the campaign go to www.fmg.org.uk , or contact Jo Lazar on 01379 650112.

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