Volunteer Blood Bikers from Yorkshire have presented Traffic Officers at The Yorkshire and North East Regional Operations Centre with an award.
During a recent visit
to ROC Wakefield, Managers from the Yorkshire Blood Bike charity presented
Jason Hall and Darren Smith with their highest accolade to recognise their colleagues’
contribution to road safety.
Whiteknights Yorkshire
Blood Bikes transport urgent Blood Samples, medications and medical supplies
overnight and at weekends. The volunteer-run, Out-of-hours service is free of
charge to hospitals and hospices in the region.
Whiteknights Regional
Manager, Andy Richardson joined Whiteknights’ Dispatch Manager, Steve Annakin,
to present the Whiteknights Champions award.
Andy said: “We have a
fleet of nine motorcycles and we cover in excess of 60,000 miles a year. Like
your Traffic Officers, we can cover many hundreds of miles each shift we’re on
duty and so we value the contribution towards road safety of all the Staff at
ROC Wakefield.
“We’re on duty from
7pm to 7am and often the majority of riding we do is on the motorway network as
we make urgent deliveries between the major hospitals across Yorkshire.”
“We have very much
enjoyed visiting National Highways Wakefield and hope that we have further raised
awareness about who we are and what we do as we ride through the night.”