FREE Webinar for Mature Drivers – Open to ALL across the Country

FREE Webinar – Tomorrow Thursday 12th June 2025 – Places still left

West Mercia Police are hosting two free online webinars during June, aimed specifically at mature drivers and their families. Each webinar will cover different topics and aims to provide mature drivers with advice on how to keep driving safer for longer as well as guidance and support on making informed decisions about their driving.

Both webinars will be hosted by James Luckhurst, Founder of Project EDWARD (Every Day Without A Road Death) and will feature a panel of expert speakers who will guide attendees through a range of subjects and issues that commonly affect drivers as we get older.

The first webinar was on Saturday 7th June and was recorded and can be viewed on the West Mercia page – click here

Tomorrow we have another FREE webinar which we have places still for you to book:

Webinar: Your Vehicle and Your Independence

Date: Thursday 12^th June 2025

Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm

Click here to book your FREE place for 12th June Webinar

For many mature drivers, their driving ability reflects their freedom and independence. This 60-minute webinar focuses on the tools, technology and support services that are available to assist your driving, build your confidence and skills, or independently assess your driving ability. Topics covered will include:

• Knowing your vehicle and its technology and how to use it to assist you.
• Dashcams and Operation Snap.
• Driving assessments or appraisals: The different types available, how they are conducted and where to find one close to you.
• Mobility scooters.
• Ways to maintain your independence when it’s time to think about retiring from driving.
• YSS Charity and #MORSE (Making Our Roads Safer for Everyone).

FREE Webinars for Mature Drivers – Open to ALL across the Country

West Mercia Police are hosting two free online webinars during June, aimed specifically at mature drivers and their families. Each webinar will cover different topics and aims to provide mature drivers with advice on how to keep driving safer for longer as well as guidance and support on making informed decisions about their driving.

Both webinars will be hosted by James Luckhurst, Founder of Project EDWARD (Every Day Without A Road Death) and will feature a panel of expert speakers who will guide attendees through a range of subjects and issues that commonly affect drivers as we get older.

Attendees are welcome to book a place on one – or both – of the webinars, depending on the subject areas of interest to you. Please ensure you follow the link below to book your place on the relevant session/s as numbers are limited.

Webinar 1: Health, Mobility and Driving

Date: Saturday 7^th June 2025

Time: 10:00am-11:00am

Click here to book your FREE place for 7th June Webinar

This 60-minute webinar offers attendees the chance to find out more about some key health and mobility issues which have a direct impact on our fitness to drive. Topics covered will include:

• Driver vision and the vital role of good eyesight in reducing risks on the roads.
• How our mobility can change as we age and the impact on our driving ability.
• Driver impairment and medication.
• Diabetes and how it can affect driving.
• Support for families, friends and carers who are concerned about an older driver and advice on how to start empathetic conversations with them about their driving.

Webinar 2: Your Vehicle and Your Independence

Date: Thursday 12^th June 2025

Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm

Click here to book your FREE place for 12th June Webinar

For many mature drivers, their driving ability reflects their freedom and independence. This 60-minute webinar focuses on the tools, technology and support services that are available to assist your driving, build your confidence and skills, or independently assess your driving ability. Topics covered will include:

• Knowing your vehicle and its technology and how to use it to assist you.
• Dashcams and Operation Snap.
• Driving assessments or appraisals: The different types available, how they are conducted and where to find one close to you.
• Mobility scooters.
• Ways to maintain your independence when it’s time to think about retiring from driving.
• YSS Charity and #MORSE (Making Our Roads Safer for Everyone).

We would urge everyone to watch this this documentary on Channel 5 called ‘Cause of Death – Licence to Kill‘ which highlights the death of 4 pedestrians due to drivers with defective vision who knew they have defective vision but still drove causing devastating consequences. When 90% of driving is visual, we all need to make sure our vision meets the standards for vision for driving. A regular eyesight test with an optometrist every two years is a great way to do this.

You MOT your car every year to make sure it is safe, we need to MOT ourselves as well to make sure we are also safe to be in control of a potential lethal weapon.

Our chair Rob Heard MBE attended the inquest of these 4 cases as an expert witness, giving evidence of Older Divers and Vision and Driving.

Click on this link to view. You may need to create an account to view, this free and only a few questions.
https://www.channel5.com/show/cause-of-death-special-a-licence-to-kill

‘DRIVING SAFELY IN SUMMER.’
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This popular series of free zoom webinars returns at 10am on Saturday 31 May   

1 June is the date the weather services use to mark the start of summer. In rural counties this brings with it seasonal road safety challenges.

• Traffic volumes increase with more vulnerable road users out and about
• This is the busiest season for farmers
• Fast growing hedgerows obscure traffic signs and at dawn and dusk wild animals are more active
• Tourists are visiting with some not being experienced in driving on rural roads
• The festival season is in full swing causing traffic jams in unexpected places.

Combine all this with higher summer temperatures and the results are higher stress levels for drivers and vehicles alike. 

This webinar will help re-fresh driving knowledge on how to keep driving safely for longer in summer 

If your summer driving includes driving a motorhome or towing a caravan this webinar will include a reminder on the checks that need to made with licence renewal at 70. Some entitlements do not automatically carry over.      

Register for this event here https://tinyurl.com/bddbvx37

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All our work in Gloucestershire is voluntary.

If you can donate, please email odfglos@gmail.com and we will provide bank details of Gloucestershire Older Persons Association (Charity No: 1124977) under whose charitable status we operate. Thank you.

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