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Arriva's places safety at the heart of everything it does and is delighted to be supporting Brake in its efforts to reduce fatal accidents.

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

As well as working hard throughout our businesses with drivers and engineers to make sure that safety is at the centre of everything we do, we also recognise our responsibility to pass on safety messages to the communities we serve.

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

Statistically, public transport is much safer than the private car – and there are environmental and health benefits from choosing the bus too.

Ms Beale added:

It's vitally important that we all do our bit to reduce accidents and deaths on the road. At Arriva we continue to develop our schools liaison work, and to work in partnership with organisations such as Brake that are devoted to promoting safety.

Arriva is itself the winner of a number of Brake awards in recent years – for managing occupational road risk, and for being the best risk managed company in the UK – has also received recognition for its work on safety from the Prince Michael International Safety forum and The Institute of Transport and Logistics. Arriva is also a signatory to the European Road Safety Charter – which aims to reduce road deaths by 25,000 a year across Europe .

Notes to editors

• Arriva is one of the largest private sector providers of passenger transport in mainland Europe. Employing more than 30,000 people and providing more than one billion passenger journeys every year.
• 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 , Denmark and the Netherlands and is London 's largest operator. Arriva was the first private company to be awarded rail contracts in Denmark .
• In the last five years, the turnover of Arriva's mainland European 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 signatory of the European Road Safety Charter – http://europa.eu.int/comm/transport/roadsafety/charter.htm.