The popular Midlands based daytime TV drama Doctors has featured a programme on a speed awareness course after producers consulted Shropshire road safety education leader, the TTC Group, for advice.
BBC One’s Doctors drama series is set in a busy Midlands practice, The Mill Health Centre, and follows the turbulent lives and loves of staff and patients.
Researchers from Selly Oak, Birmingham, contacted road safety professionals at the TTC Group in Telford to ask for advice when filming an episode.
They asked if the road safety experts could give their advice for a scene about motorists attending a course after being caught speeding.
TTC Group’s Road Safety Manager Adrian Hide said programme writers had captured the course presentation very well when he was asked to review the script.
He told them that everyone is warmly welcomed and put “at their ease” on a speed awareness course and that most people enjoyed the course and got a lot out of it.
“We were delighted to be asked for comments and are more than happy to be contacted in the future if ever we can help with information on the wide variety of road safety education which we are involved in to help make programmes as authenticate as possible,” said Adrian.
The episode was broadcast just before Christmas and is still available to view on BBC iPlayer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04v4n0r/doctors-series-16-155-good-guys
UK road safety leader, the TTC Group, educates more than 300,000 motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians each year with the aim of reducing road casualties by educating road users.
TTC Group, based at Hadley Park, is the largest provider of courses for the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS), an educational alternative to prosecution for some road traffic offences. They run courses on behalf of police and councils in 15 UK regions from Scotland in the north, Wales in the west, across north England and the Midlands to Avon and Somerset, Kent and Devon and Cornwall in the south.
They also educate professional drivers and the corporate sector, assist local authority road safety teams and deliver cycle instruction and pedestrian safety for schools, clubs, councils and individuals.
