Insurance risks highlighted by new board game

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Paul Coates and Ian McCarron in front of the broker’s new Road Hierarchy board game, highlighting the risks associated with the Highway Code changes imposed in 2022 in the form of the Causing Serious Injury through Careless or Inconsiderate Driving legislation. McCARRON COATES

Specialist coach and bus insurance broker McCarron Coates has created its own board game designed to provide passenger transport operators with food for thought about the legal framework in which they are operating as well as giving an innovative and engaging accompaniment to toolbox talks.

The new game, named ‘Road Hierarchy,’ builds on McCarron Coates’ efforts to communicate the implications of the Highway Code’s ‘Hierarchy of Road Users’, launched on 29 January 2022. The game also emphasises how McCarron Coates’ warnings of the implications were realised in June that year with the introduction of the motoring offence of ‘causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving.’

Road Hierarchy takes the player through these heavyweight topics in an engaging way, with players moving around the board and having to pay a penalty, or earn a reward, depending on which scenario square they land on. The scenario can be detrimental, if the player has exhibited poor driving behaviour or inadequate fleet management, or it can be positive, if aspects of good fleet management have been adopted.
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