Fleet safety equipment supplier Parksafe Group is partnering with Road Skills Online in an effort to reduce bridge strikes across the UK.

The company’s partnership with Road Skills Online started when it undertook one of its training sessions to help our staff better understand bridge strikes. It was found that combining Parksafe’s Low Bridge Detection System equipment with the education the trainer can provide is a much more powerful way to prevent collisions.

Road Skills Online delivers online workshops designed to be informative, engaging and digestible, providing information aimed at helping drivers and companies better understand their errors and misunderstandings, and find ways to address them.

Parksafe’s Low Bridge Detection System (LBDS) works through a tracking solution with the UK’s entire low bridge network pre-programmed. It provides the driver with a visual and audible warning when approaching a low bridge. Vehicle information is inputted at install to minimise driver input. The system activates when drivers enter a bridge’s geofence, and does not rely on a 4G signal to do this. It is remotely monitored and updated.

Bridge strikes – the facts

Between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, there were 1,833 bridge strikes reported by Network Rail.

Each bridge strike costs an average of £13,000, leading to an annual expenditure of approximately £23m. They cause huge delays for rail and roads alike, waste valuable emergency service resources and have catastrophic effects on companies and drivers.

See how Parksafe’s Low Bridge Detection System works with the video below: