Post by stockslave on Nov 2, 2010 17:07:46 GMT
I have received the following from Farmwatch:
Fax: 0870 0100686
Email: farmwatch@sussex.pnn.police.uk
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Issue Date: 2/11/2010
Title: BE DEER AWARE - ROAD SAFETY
As autumn approaches, the Highways Agency and partners in The Deer Initiative are reminding drivers to watch out for deer, particularly at dawn and dusk.
Every year, people are killed or injured in road collisions with wild deer around England. The Highways Agency has recorded over 2,000 deer-vehicle collisions since January 2009 on the motorway and A-road network in England alone.
The periods of highest risk are autumn and spring, particularly around dawn and dusk. The Deer Initiative estimates that there could be up to 74,000 deer-vehicle collisions every year in the UK, around 80 per cent of which are in England.
A key to reducing the number and severity of these incidents is to get drivers to be 'DeerAware' to slow down and watch out when they see deer warning signs at the roadside.
Advice to drivers:-
• When you see deer warning signs, check your speed and stay alert.
• If your headlights are on, use full beams when you can. But dip your headlights if you see deer as they may 'freeze'.
• More deer may follow the first one you see.
• Be prepared to stop. Try not to suddenly swerve to avoid a deer. A collision with oncoming traffic or another obstacle could be even worse.
• If you have to stop, use your hazard warning lights.
• Do not approach an injured deer, it could be dangerous.
• If you collide with a deer (or witness a collision) and someone may be injured, or if vehicles or deer in the road are a risk to road safety, then you should treat this as an emergency and ring 999 for the police or ambulance service immediately. You can use an Emergency Roadside Telephone if one is available.
• To report any injured deer please ring the RSPCA 24-hour cruelty line on 0300 1234 999.
Dr Jochen Langbein, project leader for the UK Deer Vehicle Collisions Project at The Deer Initiative, said: As days get shorter in the autumn, busy traffic times coincide with dawn and the early part of the night when deer are most active and hardest to spot. In wooded areas in particular, there may be very little warning before one or several deer bolt across.
More information about the DeerAware campaign at: www.deeraware.org.uk
Fax: 0870 0100686
Email: farmwatch@sussex.pnn.police.uk
_____________________________________________________________________________
Issue Date: 2/11/2010
Title: BE DEER AWARE - ROAD SAFETY
As autumn approaches, the Highways Agency and partners in The Deer Initiative are reminding drivers to watch out for deer, particularly at dawn and dusk.
Every year, people are killed or injured in road collisions with wild deer around England. The Highways Agency has recorded over 2,000 deer-vehicle collisions since January 2009 on the motorway and A-road network in England alone.
The periods of highest risk are autumn and spring, particularly around dawn and dusk. The Deer Initiative estimates that there could be up to 74,000 deer-vehicle collisions every year in the UK, around 80 per cent of which are in England.
A key to reducing the number and severity of these incidents is to get drivers to be 'DeerAware' to slow down and watch out when they see deer warning signs at the roadside.
Advice to drivers:-
• When you see deer warning signs, check your speed and stay alert.
• If your headlights are on, use full beams when you can. But dip your headlights if you see deer as they may 'freeze'.
• More deer may follow the first one you see.
• Be prepared to stop. Try not to suddenly swerve to avoid a deer. A collision with oncoming traffic or another obstacle could be even worse.
• If you have to stop, use your hazard warning lights.
• Do not approach an injured deer, it could be dangerous.
• If you collide with a deer (or witness a collision) and someone may be injured, or if vehicles or deer in the road are a risk to road safety, then you should treat this as an emergency and ring 999 for the police or ambulance service immediately. You can use an Emergency Roadside Telephone if one is available.
• To report any injured deer please ring the RSPCA 24-hour cruelty line on 0300 1234 999.
Dr Jochen Langbein, project leader for the UK Deer Vehicle Collisions Project at The Deer Initiative, said: As days get shorter in the autumn, busy traffic times coincide with dawn and the early part of the night when deer are most active and hardest to spot. In wooded areas in particular, there may be very little warning before one or several deer bolt across.
More information about the DeerAware campaign at: www.deeraware.org.uk
