Holden helps ARRO with Emergency Training
July 9, 2009 by Matt Brogan
Holden has donated 55 cars to the Australasian Road Rescue Orgnisation (ARRO) for their annual Road Rescue Challenge which starts today and runs through to July 12.
The vehicles, previously used for engineering evaluation purposes and not available for public sale, include VE Commodores, WM Statesmans and WM Caprices and will be used by the ARRO to simulate road crashes and provide hypothetical crash scenarios for training and development purposes.
“Vehicle and road safety is a key priority for Holden so supporting this cause is a way we can demonstrate that commitment to the wider community in a tangible and practical way,” said Ian Butler, Director of Integration and Safety at Holden. “We very much admire the work the ARRO undertakes and are pleased we can help their campaign to reduce the road toll.”
The annual challenge, which will this year be held at Sydney’s Australian Technology Park, will host fourteen teams from Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong who will perform three rounds of rescue exercises to improve their skills.
- For more information on this year’s challenge, click here.
- For more information on ARRO, click here.
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Saves Holden the expense of crushing them, and helps out ARRO.
As long as “spare parts” don’t escape from this back into the public arena.
Donating cars to the ARRO is probably a worthy cause for Holden, since it’s the only way they can move stock.
Damian, your talking about the best selling car in Australia for the last 13 years, but dont let facts get in the way of your biased dribble.
Karl, do you honestly think they will donate saleable stock??? Not a chance in hell…. They are ditching all the overstocked 07/08 vehicles. The Holden Marketing machine at it once again. Just because a vehicle is the top selling car, doesnt mean that they dont have an overstock of unwanted vehicles.
^^^ Some people have really poor comprehension skills don’t they?
The cars in question are ex-engineering evaluation mules. They were never for sale stock.
It’s either donate to something like this or crush them.