Citroen teaches young heifers to Arsenal as to drive safely

Citroen, the official car supplier of football club Arsenal, has launched an advanced defensive driving to teach young players the club how to drive safely on public roads.

Statistically speaking, young people aged between 17 and 24 years accounted for 9% of those driving in the UK and are responsible for 25% of all accidents resulting in fatalities or serious injuries.

For the "How To Take Corners, Citroen UK has been associated with the Institute of Advanced Motorist (IAM Drive & Survive), an association responsible for preventing traffic accidents, and hooked on Neil Banfield, manager of Arsenal reserves for develop a defensive driving program for team players to be more safe driving. "Players are very much rise to meet a match on the ground. In collaboration with Citroen, we want to ensure that we are preparing as well to cope when he gets behind the wheel of a car. The football field is crucial distributive attention to you and, through this program, we try to make them behave the same in traffic.'m sure this will be very helpful and will be driving more safely, "said Banfield.

Reserve team, including him here and Craig Eastmond, Emmanuel Frimpong and Wojciech Szczesny attended courses initiated by Citroen Drive & Survive and IAM to wheel the new model Citroen DS3.

"My job is not only to these players and preparing to do on the football field. It is very important that they be prepared to face any difficult situations in life. It is the first time I was involved in a Such defensive driving program and hope that from now on it becomes compulsory for everyone on the team, "he added Banfield.

"Arsenal invests heavily in education for players. We can help these young players to build and develop their careers outside football field is as important to us. We thank those at Citroen for we have involved ourselves in this project and are very confident that gamers will not only benefit, "said Arsène Wenger, Arsenal coach.

"I learned a lot during the course, but most important is to know that other drivers on the road and try to anticipate what can happen when you are driving," said Craig Eastmond and the player Arsenal team.

Source: http://www.citroen.com/

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