Road Safety Week runs from 15 to 21 November 2026, and your fleet can take part in your own way. Find practical ideas, from team briefings to fundraising for Brake, plus five habits that keep the focus going all year.
Road Safety Week runs from 15 to 21 November 2026. It’s Brake’s biggest annual road safety campaign, and this year’s theme is “Safe people on the move“. Thousands of schools, employers, emergency services and communities take part every year, and your business can join them.
Quartix is proud to be an Associated Partner of Brake, the road safety charity. We’d love to see more businesses get involved, so this guide shares practical ideas for every team size, from a short toolbox talk to a team fundraiser. You’ll also find five habits that help you keep the Road Safety Week focus going all year.
Road Safety Week is a national campaign run by Brake. It raises awareness of road death and injury, and it calls for measures that make roads safer. This year’s week starts on Sunday 15 November, the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
The theme reminds us that we all share the road, whether we walk, wheel, ride or drive. It also highlights the Highway Code’s hierarchy of road users: the people driving vehicles that can do the most harm carry the greatest responsibility for protecting more vulnerable road users.
Brake is also inviting everyone to find out how modern technology can help us drive more safely. That’s a topic close to our hearts at Quartix.
Brake reports that five people die on UK roads every day. One in four people killed is walking or cycling, and one in nine casualties is a child under 16. Behind each figure is a family whose life changed in an instant. Fleets play a big part in changing those numbers. In 2025, around 445 people died in crashes involving someone driving for work, nearly a third of all road deaths. A van sits high in the hierarchy of road users, so every fleet has the chance to protect the people around it. Speed is part of that picture. Our 2026 data shows where UK speed limits are broken most often. On one stretch of the M77 in Scotland, 52% of traffic exceeded the 70mph limit.
Want the full list? See which five UK roads topped our 2026 data, and what changed since 2024. Explore the UK speeding hotspots.
Our new research adds a second view of speed. It analyses more than 1.8 million segments of rural 60mph roads and asks what speed is actually safe on them. Find out what our research shows about rural 60mph roads. Read the guide to safe speeds on rural roads.
Road Safety Week gives you a natural reason to start these conversations with your team. Here’s how.
Every contribution counts, whether you have ten minutes or a whole day. Here are five ways your fleet can take part.
Register on Brake’s website to receive your free pack. It’s the quickest way to get started. Brake also offers resources made for employers, plus stories from other businesses to inspire your plans.
A short talk before the working day starts is enough. Here are some topics to cover:
See how vehicle tracking helps your fleet adapt to 20mph limits.
Put the kettle on and host a Big Tea Brake sale at your depot, office or home any time in November. The money you raise supports Brake’s free National Road Victim Service and its campaigns for safer roads. Brake runs without central Government funding in England and Wales, so every cup or treat counts.
Use the week to look at your driving style scores and speed reports with your team. Pick one improvement as a shared goal, such as smoother braking or fewer speeding events. Then celebrate progress. Share good scores, thank team members who drive well and ask what helps them.
If you use Quartix, this information is already in your system. Driving style scores, speed reports and league tables give you plenty to talk about.
Find out how to celebrate good driving with driver scores and hear how driver coaching turns safety into a conversation.
Post a photo of your briefing, your Big Tea Brake or your team’s safety pledge. Use Brake’s official Road Safety Week hashtag from the action pack, and tag Brake so it can see and share your efforts.
Road safety is a long-term commitment at Quartix. Here’s how we work with Brake.
Associate Partner. Quartix joined Brake as an Associated Partner in 2026, supporting its campaigns to end road crashes and helping to fund its work. Read Brake’s announcement.
Road Safety Week 2025. Last year, to support the theme “Safe Vehicles Save Lives”, we hosted the Safer Vehicles, Safer Drivers webinar with Morson Vital’s safety-critical fleet team. As a part of the Big Tea Brake, the webinar raised £4,000 for Brake. Read our Road Safety Week 2025 recap or watch the webinar recording.
UK Fleet Champions Awards 2026. We’re the headline sponsor of Brake’s awards, which celebrate fleets for their safety work. On 30 September, more than 300 people gathered at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, and twelve awards recognised this year’s champions. Our Global Sales Director Sean Maher told guests that putting safety at the heart of how you operate matters whether you run two vans or 20,000. Meet the 2026 winners or explore Brake’s awards page.
Want to keep the Road Safety Week focus going? These four simple habits build on information your vehicle tracking system already gives you. Quartix tracks your vehicles, so every conversation can focus on supporting your team and recognising good driving.
Every trip feeds a driving style score based on braking, acceleration and speed. Colour-coding shows who drives well and who would welcome a conversation. Driver league tables add some friendly competition, and many customers use them to encourage improvement across their teams. Explore the tools on our driver behaviour page.
Live tracking shows where every vehicle is right now. Driver ID links each trip to a team member, so the right person gets the right conversation, or the right thank you. Out-of-hours reports show vehicle movement outside normal working hours, so you know about journeys that fall outside your usual safety routines.
SafeSpeed adds another measure of safety. It compares your team’s speed with other road users on the same stretch of road, alongside the legal limit. That helps on roads such as narrow rural lanes, where the safe speed can sit below the posted limit.
It draws on data from 100,000 drivers across 2 million UK road sections, and it’s unique to Quartix. Mark Cartwright of National Highways has praised it on our podcast, noting that speed is a major cause of collisions and makes them more serious.
Safer driving protects more than your reputation. When an incident happens, having accurate location, speed and trip data means you’re not relying on memory or assumptions, you’ve got the facts. That protects your team from unfair blame, and protects your business against false claims, insurance disputes, or awkward questions from a client.
It also builds trust. When your team can see that decisions are backed by data rather than opinion, safety conversations feel fair rather than personal.
Integrated dashcams go one step further. They link HD footage to the exact trip, speed and location, so the full picture sits in one place. Some team members worry that cameras mean being watched. Explain early that dashcams protect them as well as the business.
WJ Road Markings runs a fleet of more than 400 vehicles. It combined Quartix with SAFED training and, within a year, saw a 65% fall in accidents, a 12% improvement in fuel efficiency and over £150,000 in maintenance savings.
Road Safety Week runs from 15 to 21 November. Pick one idea from this guide, sign up for Brake’s free action pack and tell your team what you’re planning. Every fleet that takes part helps spread the message.
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