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Posted on 2012-01-03 17:09:17

Angela worked as an Accident Prevention Officer at Waltham Forest from 1989 to 2003.  Paul Binnie, who was the RSO at Waltham Forest at the time, said “Whilst at Waltham Forest she worked extremely hard and forged excellent relationships with the schools and community, many of her professional contacts became firm friends over the years”.

Angela set up the Junior Accident Prevention Officers club in the Borough, her very own version of the modern JRSO scheme, many years before the scheme went London wide.

Paul went on to say “In Angela’s private life she had many friends, whenever I went out with her in the community to work she would always bump into someone she knew, one year when flying to Blackpool for a ROSPA conference she even sat next to someone on the Plane she knew who was nothing to do with Road Safety.”

Angela moved to Tower Hamlets to become their road Safety Education Officer in 2003.   Angela was involved in many projects in this role including many cross borough and pan London initiatives.  Angela took a leading role in developing pan London Drug-Driving Awareness campaigns and ran Tower Hamlets’ very successful Junior Citizen Scheme.  Tony Davis of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets said “ Angela helped to shape future generations of Tower Hamlets children through the Junior Citizens programme which saw some 17,000 pupils participate during her time with the Council.  Angela’s cheerful and professional approach were always her hallmark”.

Whilst Angela could be quiet and reserved in work she could be a bit of a live wire outside work, at one ROSPA conference she did a solo slot on the Dance floor as Aretha Franklin which is still celebrated even now.

Angela was a student at the OU where she achieved a degree and used to often go and supervise student parties in her spare time. She also used to feature in an OU film about university life which was frequently broadcast during the early hours of the morning on TV. Paul Binnie recalls “Very often someone would say to her ‘I saw you on TV when I got in from the pub last night!’ ”.

Angela was committed to improving road safety practice and took an active involvement in regional groups such as the London Road Safety Council and the London group of Road Safety Great Britain to help to achieve this.  Angela was a member of the Executive Committee of the LRSC and served diligently in the role of Treasurer for the Council for six years.

Angela enjoyed being outdoors and would often spend an hour or so at her beloved allotment before going to work and would often head straight back there at the end of the working day.

Angela’s private email header was ‘Sunshine Queen’.  Never was a title more apt, Angela brought a ray of sunshine into the lives of all who worked with her and will be greatly missed by us all.

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