More than 250 people from across the fleet sector came together to enjoy a celebration dinner and honour the 43 shortlisted organisations and individuals for their outstanding commitment to road safety.
The UK Fleet Champions Awards are a major event in Brake’s calendar, celebrating the hard work and dedication of fleet organisations striving to reduce road deaths and injuries, and reduce pollution caused by their vehicles.
This year’s awards were sponsored by Lightfoot and delivered in partnership with Driving for Better Business by National Highways. Individual award sponsorship from a further 10 fleet suppliers and organisations underlined support for these awards from across the industry. Entries were judged by an independent panel of experts and twelve winners were announced on the night and a further thirteen were highly commended by the judges. See the full list of winners below.
The prestigious Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety was presented to Professor Nick Reed, in recognition of his exceptional expertise and dedication, gained across nearly 20 years in the sector. The founder of Reed Mobility, Professor Reed was especially commended for his pioneering research, instrumental role in the legislative process leading to the new Automated Vehicles Act, and for driving collaboration across the road safety sector to end road death and injury. Beyond his consultancy work, he was also praised for giving time and expertise generously to road safety initiatives as a trustee of a number of national charities, including Brake, and has been a judge for Brake’s Fleet Awards programme for many years.
The host of the evening was Brake’s CEO, Ross Moorlock, who talked about the devastating impact of road crashes on families and reminded attendees that a third of road deaths involve someone driving for work. He urged everyone in the room to come together to help achieve the shared goal of ending deaths and injuries on roads. Attendees also took part in fundraising games and a raffle, raising thousands to support Brake’s work caring for families bereaved by road crashes. Moorlock also reminded guests to take action by signing up to Road Safety Week which takes place 17-23 November.
Ross Moorlock said: “Last night was all about fun and celebration but at the heart of everything we do there’s always a serious message. At Brake, we believe that no one should be hurt or killed on a road, and it’s unacceptable to us that deaths and injuries continue to happen, every single day, on UK roads.
“We would like to thank everyone who attended and supported this year’s awards, helping us to celebrate all those in the fleet industry who are taking action to help end road death and injury in the fleet industry.”
Last night was all about fun and celebration but at the heart of everything we do there’s always a serious message. At Brake, we believe that no one should be hurt or killed on a road, and it’s unacceptable to us that deaths and injuries continue to happen, every single day, on UK roads.
Ross Moorlock, CEO, Brake
Pictured l-r: Dan Campsall, chair of Agilysis; Professor Nick Reed, winner of the Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety, and Phil Powell, managing director of Matrix iQ
Paul Hollick, managing director at Lightfoot added: "As headline sponsor, all of the team at Lightfoot are thrilled to commend this year’s winners for their dedication to safety, sustainability, and innovation in fleet management. It was a fantastic night celebrating the true champions of the industry, whose dedication is making our roads safer for everyone.
“We’re proud to support such an inspiring event, aligned with our mission to drive progress in road safety and efficiency. Congratulations to all the winners—you are leading the way to a safer future!"
Mark Cartwright, head of the commercial vehicle incident prevention team at National Highways, added: “We are delighted to partner with Brake to deliver this year’s UK Fleet Champions Awards. This is an important night for our industry and all of us in attendance are inspired to take further action against road crashes. A huge congratulations to all the worthy winners and to all those nominated.”
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Winners at the UK Fleet Champions Awards 2024
- Company Driver Safety Award (Sponsored by Fleetmaster)
Small/medium fleet
WINNER: Countrystyle Recycling Highly Commended: Hooke Highways - Company Driver Safety Award (Sponsored by Fleetmaster)
Large fleet
WINNER: Northern Powergrid Highly Commended: LKQ UK & Ireland Group
Highly Commended: Centrica - Public Sector Driver Safety Award (sponsored by TTC Group)
WINNER: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Highly Commended: Metropolitan Police Service - Sustainable Journeys Award (sponsored by Zurich Resilience Solutions)
WINNER: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Hooke Highways - Dr Will Murray Award for Analysis and Action (sponsored by eDriving)
WINNER: Fleetmaster
Highly Commended: Geotab - Fleet Safety Innovation Award (sponsored by FM Conway)
WINNER: Speedy Hire
Highly Commended: FORS, Fleetmaster, Seeing Machines - Fleet Safety Partnership Award (sponsored by AXA UK)
WINNER: TTC Group in partnership with Willmott Dixon
Highly Commended: SSE plc in partnership with Applied Driving Techniques - Fleet Safety Product Award (sponsored by Seeing Machines)
WINNER: Licence Check Ltd
Highly Commended: RED Corporate Driver Training, Fleet Service GB - Road Safety in the Community Award (sponsored by Samsara)
WINNER: Metropolitan Police Service
Highly Commended: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service - Safe Vehicles Award (sponsored by Geotab)
WINNER: Network Rail - Road Risk Manager of the Year Award (sponsored by QBE)
WINNER: Mick Kiely, TES 2000
Highly Commended: Andrew Drewary, Road Safety Smart - Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety (sponsored by Matrix iQ)
WINNER: Nick Reed, Reed Mobility
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About Brake
Brake is a national road safety charity, founded in 1995, that exists to stop deaths, serious injuries and pollution on roads, and to care for families bereaved and injured in road crashes.
Brake campaigns for safe and healthy roads through seeking government policies and investment to end the carnage, and through projects that help communities, schools and employers promote safe and pollution-free streets locally. Brake delivers Road Safety Week, the UK’s biggest road safety campaign.
Brake is the national provider of care and support to victims of road crashes and their families through the National Road Victim Service, helping families cope with the shock, turmoil and devastation that road crashes cause families across the UK every day.
For more information and to fundraise for the charity, go to www.brake.org.uk.
About Driving for Better Business by National Highways
Driving for Better Business is a free to access government-backed National Highways programme, delivered in partnership with RoadSafe. Their purpose is to help organisations reduce work related road risk, protecting staff who driver or ride for work, and other with whom they share the road. Their mission is to improve safety and reduce risk for all those who driver or ride for work, by promoting good management practice and demonstrating the significant business benefits that follow.
www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com
About Lightfoot
Lightfoot is an award-winning technology organisation that is helping to make roads safer, the environment cleaner and business vehicles less expensive to run. Its revolutionary, advanced technology has become the fleet management solution of choice for many of the UK’s largest fleets and is now supporting businesses across all of Europe. www.lightfoot.co.uk
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