Monday 2 Jul 2007
DERBY GETS THE NO MESSIN'! MESSAGE
- Region & Route:
As the school holidays approach and children plan how to fill their spare time, Network Rail's Route Crime Education Team has been busy spreading the message to local schools and youth groups about the dangers of messing about on the railway.
The team have already visited a large number of schools in the Derby area and Ryan O'Leary, a boy aged 10 from Draycott Primary School in Derbyshire won an MP4 player through a competition on the No Messin'! website and happily told us that he was "very excited at winning the competition on the No Messin'! website" Ian Chapman, Network Rail's Head of Route Crime Education said: "During the school holidays we see an increase in trespass and vandalism on the railway. The No Messin'! campaign aims to get across to young people that the railway is not a playground and give them something else to do in their spare time. No Messin'! Live will give children the opportunity to see it for real when it hits the Moorways Centre in Derby on 13 and 14 August."
Notes to editors
No Messin'! a national campaign to stop young people messing around on the railway tracks, and reduce the number of resultant deaths and injuries by getting them doing something better with their time. More details at: http://www.no-messin.com No Messin'! Live, is a free activity event that will be hitting The Moorways Centre in Derby on the 13 & 14 August. There have already been 365 incidents of trespass and vandalism in the East Midlands in 2007. These Include: - 189 incidents of trespass - 16 near misses - 62 incidents of stone and missile throwing - 56 incidents of obstruction (placing objects on the line) - 29 incidents of vandalism Five young people (all under 16) died on the railway in the Great Britain last year as a result of trespass
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