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A Long Background in Traffic Safety -- Eddie Wren, F.A.D.A.
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ADA was co-founded by Eddie Wren, whose background in driving and road safety is extensive. He spent fourteen years in the British police, mostly serving as a traffic patrol officer.
During that time he was trained as a police ‘advanced driver’ and ‘advanced motorcyclist,’ scoring the second highest test marks in the history of the force concerned, for the latter. British police advanced driving courses are widely regarded as the highest level of road-driver training in the world, and can total up to 640 hours to achieve the required standards. |
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Eddie Wren |
As a necessary and frequent part of his duties, he attended and investigated many hundreds of road crashes, ranging from minor to fatal.
He was also a response/pursuit driver on ministerial protection duties, following the terrorist murder of British Member of Parliament, Airey Neave.
For the last three years of his police service, Eddie was chosen, on a full-time basis, to visit senior schools, colleges, and apprentice training centres, to discuss safety and survival with groups of young drivers and motorcyclists. He gave several hundred of these talks.
The specialist section to which he belonged was Britain's first such police department and was the forerunner to many excellent schemes, in particular BikeSafe.
After leaving the police, he became a ‘Department of Transport Approved Driving Instructor’ and worked for the British School of Motoring. He was swiftly promoted to supervisory instructor.
Because of his students’ high driving-test success rates, Eddie was subsequently invited to become a driving test examiner, but declined the offer.
He later became a civilian investigator and handled many road accident cases on behalf of lawyers and insurance companies.
He then – by invitation – became the managing director of an advanced driver training company, for which he recruited former police instructors and arranged the training schedules for individuals who wished to learn to drive to the same high standards as do British traffic patrol officers.
Eddie Wren was subsequently appointed as the only north of England driver for a branch of the U.K. ‘National Health Service’ that organizes the delivery of donor organs. This necessitated driving at extreme speeds for long distances on public roads, but always with police clearance. In December 1999, he was featured in the UK ‘Volvo Magazine’ regarding his position in charge of training for the team of donor organ transportation drivers in Scotland.
He has driven regularly and extensively in both the USA and Canada over the past six years and is working on a series of books about safe driving in North America.
Eddie Wren is the president of Advanced Drivers of America, Inc. [ADA], specializing in the research and policy aspects of the corporation. He is also the executive director of Drive and Stay Alive, Inc. [DSA] -- a 501-c-3 not-for-profit organization.
He regularly attends major traffic safety conferences, around the world, in order to help keep both ADA and DSA at the forefront of global knowledge and best practice, and he is also a speaker at such events.
In April 2007, at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit, Eddie Wren published a technical paper designed to highlight the dangerous quality of information that is given to young drivers in America, and as getting replies from many official bodies in the USA has proven impossible the paper was deliberately given an aggressive (but entirely accurate) title: State Drivers' Manuals Can Kill Your Kids!
Copyright © 2006: Advanced Drivers of America, Inc.