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Helen Wells

@roadspolicingwells.bsky.social
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Criminologist and researcher of all things roads policing. Shares are not endorsements.

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ProjectEDWARD @projectedward.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Webinar tomorrow- Road death and the pursuit of justice. Still time to register.
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Prof Gemma Briggs @gemmabriggs.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I was interviewed on Radio 4's World at One today on the RAC report on motoring's findings about speeding. You can listen to the interview here, from approx 40.30mins. We need to recognise the impact of road user attitude and behaviour on everyone's safety www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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World at One - LA residents survey wildfire devastation - BBC Sounds
LA residents survey damage as wildfires continue to burn.
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Prof Gemma Briggs @gemmabriggs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We need to address the language used in road collisions if we're ever going to recognise road injury and death as the serious public health issue it is. A *driver* lost control of their vehicle, with fatal consequences.
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Policing Insight @policinginsight.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
How well do officers understand distracted driving – and how do they police it? policinginsight.com/feature/anal...
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How well do officers understand distracted driving – and how do they police it?
New research exploring the challenge of distracted driving and police officers’ role in educating drivers about the dangers of mobile phone use highlights a lack of understanding about the impact of…
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Prof Gemma Briggs @gemmabriggs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
New to Bluesky, so I'll share our new paper! Written with the wonderful @roadspolicingwells.bsky.social and Leanne Savigar-Shaw and funded by @therstrust.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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‘Why aren’t you using Bluetooth?!’ Officer understanding of the dangers of handheld and handsfree mobile phone-use by drivers - Gemma Briggs, Leanne Savigar-Shaw, Helen Wells, 2024
Phone-use by drivers contributes to increasing numbers of collisions and deaths worldwide. Despite clear evidence for the equal dangers of handsfree phone-use, ...
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Helen Wells @roadspolicingwells.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Robert Miller's short film about the Metropolitan Police Traffic Patrol from 1982, when three people died every day from 'traffic accidents'. Lots to unpick here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBg9...
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OSCAR OSCAR
YouTube video by robert miller
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/12/2024
Nine years for laughing gas crash driver who killed his friends
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Nine years for laughing gas crash driver who killed his friends
Judge at Oxford crown court tells Thomas Johnson he will be ‘forever defined’ by what happened A teenager has been jailed for more than nine years for causing the death of three of his friends by dangerous driving after inhaling nitrous oxide. Thomas…
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Sally Kyd @profkyd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Interested to see the take-up of this tech. In an ideal world we would want more officers on the roads. For those interested, Briggs et al (not on bsky 😌)have researched how the few existing officers choose whether to give a "bloody good telling off":
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