Road Safety

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 15 June 2021.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 2:12, 15 June 2021

Thank you for that answer, First Minister. The twenty seventh of June will mark the second anniversary of the tragic death of my constituent Olivia Alkir. She was just 17 years old and was killed in a car crash on a rural Denbighshire road. As a result of that tragedy, Olivia's mum, Jo, and Olivia's best friend, Joe Hinchcliffe, started a campaign, the Olivia's Legacy campaign, to promote safer driving, particularly amongst first-year drivers. And their campaign includes the request for all first-year drivers to have telematics devices in their vehicles, which, as you know, can promote improved, safer driving. First Minister, we've managed to secure the support of the chief constable of North Wales Police, Carl Foukes, and many others on this journey with this particular campaign. I appreciate that some of these things are not devolved matters, but can I ask: will you support now the Olivia Alkir legacy campaign to ensure that telematics devices can be something that we can encourage all young people to have in their cars in that critical first year after they've passed their test in order to avoid the awful tragedy that Olivia's family have suffered?