Calvin Buckley lost his partner Frankie Hough and their unborn daughter to a selfish, show-off driver - now he wants cultural change on our roads
A year ago today, Calvin Buckley and his partner of three years - pregnant and beaming Frankie Julia Hough - proudly hosted a gender reveal party.
Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now On Tuesday - 12 months on from the joyous celebration of new life - Calvin is standing at the side of the East Lancashire Road in Swinton, Salford, fronting a powerful new road safety campaign. He says he wants to change minds and a culture that believes driving while on a mobile phone is acceptable and without risk.
Calvin, a PE teacher and gym coach from Oldham, is in the process of setting up Frankie and Neeve's Road Safety Academy. They hope to go into schools, educate youngsters and breed a new mentality around driving. "In Frankie's case, it was an extreme use of a mobile phone. He was filming himself. But the use of mobile phones at the wheel is a huge problem. I see it every day. I see people making video calls. The consequences can be deadly, and I have lived through it and continue to live through it.""Two people lost their lives as a result of someone using their phone while driving, and to put it simply my life was destroyed," he said.
The new campaign is part of the Vision Zero Strategy, which aims to eliminate all deaths and life-changing injuries on Greater Manchester's roads by 2040. In the last ten years nearly 10,000 people who live in, work in or visit the region have been killed or seriously injured on the roads, Transport for Greater Manchester said.
A court heard two months before the fatal collision, Iqbal was spotted by police 'racing' with another car in Lancashire while driving a VW Golf. Both cars were stopped and the drivers warned their cars could be seized if they were pulled over again for 'bad driving'.
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