Brake – the Road Safety Charity

Website for the UK's leading road safety awareness and victim support organisation

Brake are the leading UK charity which campaigns for improved road safety and supports the victims of crashes. Their main website is an extensive collection of resources, campaigns, safety tips and support tools.

Interactive Solutions were asked to redevelop the website to provide a robust, secure and scalable platform for future development. The site content is constantly updated by several site administrators and so an effective Content Management System (CMS) was also essential. Joomla was selected as the development platform, as it provided a cost-effective system, which could be extended with new features in due course. A custom Joomla template was developed, based on the layout of an earlier version of the site.

Technology:

Joomla, HTML, CSS

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Website for Road Safety Week - Brake's annual awareness raising event.

Road Safety Week is Brake’s flagship annual event, aimed at stimulating community involvement in road safety awareness. This website provides resources, information packs and ideas about how to get involved. It also showcases community events from earlier years and celebrates their achievements.

Technology:

Joomla, HTML, CSS

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Fleet Safety Forum (Incorporating Pledge2Drive Safely) - an e-learning resource aimed at fleet drivers

We've been working with Brake for several years now, to develop a range on e-learning materials and online resources to support their road safety campaigns.

The Fleet Safety Forum website is for everyone who drives for work and their managers. It provides access to resources from Brake’s Pledge 2 Drive Safely Campaign including for example, interactive activities for drivers, video clips about crashes and their victims, and a Manager's toolkit for embedding the Pledge principles within the workforce. After using the site, you are asked to make a real pledge to drive more safely by completing an online form.

Technology:

HTML, CSS, Adobe Flash, ASP.NET

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2Young2Die – an e-learning resource aimed at young drivers.

It’s a sad fact that young people are the most likely to die or be seriously injured in a motoring accident. Young male drivers are the most at risk. We were asked by Brake to develop an interactive online resource for your drivers to raise their awareness of road safety and the potential consequences of their actions on the road. Based on the content of an existing leaflet, we designed an online resource with information from the leaflet and a number of interactive elements. Young drivers work through the resource, which culminates in them making a pledge to drive safely. Those who make the Pledge qualify for an insurance discount with Co-operative Insurance. This interactive resource, developed in Adobe Flash also saves information responses to survey questions anonymously in a database, providing useful information to Brake and their partners on attitudes to driving and safety.

The project was completed to a tight budget and has prompted Brake to develop similar resources for other driving groups, for example business and fleet drivers.

Technology:

HTML, CSS, Adobe Flash, ASP.NET

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