Road safety ‘veterans’ receive Linda Chalker Awards

Two long-serving road safety professionals have become recipients of Linda Chalker Awards, which were presented at the LARSOA AGM on Tuesday of last week.

First, John Moss (top pic) received his award for 30 years of service that will conclude at the end of March 2004.

Originally from Essex, John first took the position of CRSO in Cleveland on leaving the RAF in 1974. He was then appointed CRSO in Cheshire in 1983, where he has remained ever since.

John – who was described as being ‘never short of a carefully thought out opinion’ by LARSOA chair Steve Whitehouse – received an MBE for services to motorcycling several years ago.

The second recipient, Colin Pettener, also joined the profession from the RAF.

His first post was assistant RSO in Manchester, from where he moved to Rochdale in 1976. In 1979 he became CRSO in Shropshire where remained until he retired recently. He has subsequently taken up a consultancy role with Telford Training Consultants (TTC).