Funding boost for Fermanagh-based road safety projects

Around ten-thousand pounds each has been awarded to two Fermanagh-based projects, it's been announced.

Two road safety projects in Fermanagh have been given a welcome boost.

Fermanagh Community Transport and the Cashel Community Association will receive around ten-thousand pounds each to administer road safety training and raise awareness among both adults over sixty and schoolchildren respectively.

The funding was announced yesterday by Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard.

It forms part of his department's Road Safety Grant Scheme.

“Road traffic collisions and their devastating consequences hit right at the core of our communities. Government works hard to inform road users of the problem issues in order to help them make good choices when using the roads," Minister Hazzard said.

“I know that government can’t succeed on its own and I recognise the valuable role the voluntary and community sector plays in helping us work towards reducing death and injury on our roads. This is why, through the Road Safety Grant Scheme, I continue to support local road safety initiatives which allow us to deliver powerful road safety messages to the heart of communities addressing their specific road safety problems,” he added.