Toyota Helping To Save Lives
The vehicles were vital when DFRS proudly hosted the recent 2019 United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO) Challenge. This prestigious annual event offered emergency services personnel the opportunity to share techniques across a range of rescue disciplines, including vehicle extrication, greatly assisting improvements of rescue standards and technical skills.
Derbyshire’s Chief Fire Officer/Chief Executive Gavin Tomlinson said: “For many years, TMUK has been a longstanding partner of DFRS, generously donating hundreds of cars which have been used across the Service for training and development”.
“Last year the Service attended over 540 road traffic collisions, therefore, it is essential that our crews have the necessary skills, training and knowledge to deal with whatever situation they come across. Training, using donated Toyota’s, allows Firefighters to be in touch with the latest vehicle technology and safety systems. This ensures they are able to deal with incidents as efficiently and effectively as possible, providing better outcomes for road users involved in a collision”.
CFO Neil Odin, Chair of the UKRO, said the provision of these vehicles from TMUK ensures that the rescue teams from across the UK are able to test their techniques, skills and equipment on new vehicles. The knowledge gained from our educational workshops and rescue challenge combine to assist rescue and medical personnel to effectively deal with new vehicle technology such as hybrid and electric vehicles when called upon to deal with real road traffic collisions.
Marvin Cooke, Managing Director at Toyota Manufacturing UK commented “All at TMUK are proud of the on-going partnership with DFRS. We will continue to support road traffic collision training with the provision of trial vehicles in the future, helping to reduce extrication times - a win-win all round”.
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For more information, please contact: Julie Langley on 01332 283611 or Chris Barrow on 01332 283609, Toyota Manufacturing UK
Note to Editors
Toyota Manufacturing UK produces Corolla Hatchback and Corolla Touring Sport models at its vehicle manufacturing plant at Burnaston, Derbyshire, and petrol and hybrid engines at its engine manufacturing plant at Deeside, North Wales. In 2018, TMUK produced 129,070 vehicles, 345,855 engines for export and local assembly at plants across the world. To date, Toyota has invested over £2.75 billion into its UK manufacturing operations and currently employs over 3000 members.
DFRS are available to respond to calls across Derbyshire every minute of every day and work hard to reduce the risks of fires, road traffic accidents and other emergency incidents across the county.
UKRO is a charitable organisation, which aims to drive the national agenda on road death reduction, by pushing vehicle extrication to its professional pinnacle and showcasing other rescue disciplines.
