RoSPA recognises two road safety professionals

Two people who have performed outstanding road safety work have been given RoSPA’s top award for individuals.

Graham Feest, secretary of the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers (AIRSO), and Professor James Thomson of Strathclyde University were presented with RoSPA’s Distinguished Service Award for road safety at the Society’s recent National Road Safety Congress in Cardiff. The presentations were made by John Howard, RoSPA’s chief executive on 2 March.

Graham Feest (pictured above, right) has helped AIRSO develop and thrive as a respected road safety organisation and has made an important contribution in many areas of accident prevention. "I am delighted for AIRSO, as this award is not only for myself it is also for my colleagues," he said. "I would not be able to do my work successfully if I didn’t have the support and help of others."

The award given to James Thomson (pictured opposite, right) is for his work in research and development at Strathclyde University. This has been fundamental to the development of practical child pedestrian training, which is now an important part of local authority training programmes and the Government’s Road Safety Strategy.

"I am very touched to receive this award as RoSPA itself is always so receptive to new ideas in all areas of safety," he said.

For further details go to: http://www.rospa.co.uk/CM