TTCs COLIN PETTENER RECEIVES MBE - Friday, November 10th, 2006
Shropshire road safety professional Colin Pettener has received the MBE from the Queen in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Colin (65), of Bayston Hill, now works in promoting corporate road safety with driver training and education specialists, The TTC Group, after a lifetime dedicated to road safety in a variety of key roles.
The Queen told Colin at the medal ceremony: “We need road safety officers’. It is very important.”
Colin said: “I am very proud and pleased to receive this award. It is a great honour and I would like to thank all the many people I have met in the world of road safety during my long career. I know that we have contributed towards making it a safer place for many people.
“I would also like to dedicate this award to my dear wife Mavis who has been an absolute rock throughout my career.”
Colin has been involved in all aspects of road safety from being a county road safety officer to introducing national driving schemes and a member of numerous national road safety organisations.
Instrumental in the introduction of the National Driver Improvement Scheme, Colin also helped to form the Shropshire group of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, the first in the UK to run structured training courses.
He has won the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award and the Lynda Chalker Award. Well respected in the global road safety world, Colin is also a Fellow of the Institute of Road Safety Officers, a member of the Institution of Highways and Transportation and a past member of the National Road Safety Committee.
Married to Mavis for (42) years, the father-of-two from Bayston Hill, near Shrewsbury, has five grandchildren and is now a member of the management team at The TTC Group, of Hadley Park, Telford, where he continue to work with UK road safety professionals to provide training courses for industry.
