This year’s Road Safety Week will explore the subject of speeding and how driving slower can save lives among business and private drivers.

This year’s campaign will start a conversation on what happens when we speed and why reducing speed saves lives

The campaign, which is run by road safety charity Brake, will take place from 19 to 25 November 2023.

Using the theme of ‘Let’s talk about speed’, the campaign will start the conversation about why speeding is thought of as acceptable in some situations, what happens when we speed and why reducing speed saves lives.

The theme was set following discussions with representatives from community groups, the police, government, businesses, educators and other charities.

This year’s campaign will see a day for each group connected with Road Safety Week – including ‘Fleet Friday’.

Ross Moorlock, interim CEO at Brake, said: “Every time we driver faster than the speed limit, or too fast for the road conditions, we increase the risk of a crash – and we increase the chance that someone will be killed or hurt on the road. The faster you go, the longer the stopping distance and the harder you will hit something.

“Whoever you are, and however you travel – this year we are challenging everyone to start talking about speed with your friends, families and colleagues.”

Sign up to Road Safety Week 2023 by visiting www.brake.org.uk/road-safety-week.