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Motorcycle track will teach road safety
An Essex academy has announced plans to build a motorcycle track as part of wider ambitions to teach youngsters road safety.
The course, at New Rickstones Academy in Witham, could help reduce future motorcycle insurance premiums and will also be used to help students grasp mechanical skills, reports Colchester's Gazette.
It is due to open in the summer and will be followed by the building of a garage workshop on the site and a ring road around the academy.
New Rickstones vice-principal Bob Pulman told the news source that negotiations are still underway with local farmers to secure permission to build the latter on land behind the school.
In other road safety news, future motorcycle insurance policyholders in Avon and Somerset were taught the importance of rider safety through the use of a Scalextric circuit last month.
Pupils at St Katherine's School in Pill were shown the dangers of the road by police, who asked pupils to demonstrate their motoring abilities using the toy track and cars before teaching how motorbikes handle differently from other vehicles and the best ways to avoid collisions by identifying hazards.
PC Adams, who addressed the students, said: "Although the youngsters are too young to drive at the moment, many of them are approaching 16 and may start thinking about riding mopeds in the near future."
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