Arriva supports Brake road safety campaign – every week of the year

Arriva's places safety at the heart of everything it does and isdelighted to be supporting Brake in its efforts to reduce fatalaccidents.

Lynne Beale, Arriva's Group risk manager, said:

As well as working hard throughout our businesses withdrivers and engineers to make sure that safety is at the centre ofeverything we do, we also recognise our responsibility to pass onsafety messages to the communities we serve.

Our bus businesses work with schools, local authoritiesand parents to try and help children learn the vital lessons theyneed to travel safely, and to play safely.

Statistically, public transport is much safer than the privatecar – and there are environmental and health benefits fromchoosing the bus too.

Ms Beale added:

It's vitally important that we all do our bit to reduceaccidents and deaths on the road. At Arriva we continue to developour schools liaison work, and to work in partnership withorganisations such as Brake that are devoted to promotingsafety.

Arriva is itself the winner of a number of Brake awards inrecent years – for managing occupational road risk, and forbeing the best risk managed company in the UK – has alsoreceived recognition for its work on safety from the Prince MichaelInternational Safety forum and The Institute of Transport andLogistics. Arriva is also a signatory to the European Road SafetyCharter – which aims to reduce road deaths by 25,000 a yearacross Europe.

Notes to editors

• Arriva is one of the largest private sector providers ofpassenger transport in mainland Europe. Employing more than 30,000people and providing more than one billion passenger journeys everyyear.
• Arriva provides transport services including buses, trains,commuter coaches and water buses in eight European countries– Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,Sweden and the UK.
• Arriva is the largest private bus operator in Italy, Denmarkand the Netherlands and is London's largest operator. Arriva wasthe first private company to be awarded rail contracts in Denmark.
• In the last five years, the turnover of Arriva's mainlandEuropean operations has increase by more than 250 per cent to£514.8 million (Euro £746 million).
• Arriva was the first UK transport company to become a signatoryof the European Road Safety Charter –http://europa.eu.int/comm/transport/roadsafety/charter.htm.