TRAFFICMASTER COULD HELP TRAVELLERS IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

With thousands of people still stuck abroad because of the flight cancellations and delays caused by the clouds of volcanic ash, Trafficmaster has offered to help travellers in emergency situations for free.

Having spent days stuck in a foreign country, the last thing that travellers need is to have an accident or to be a victim of crime and yet again struggle to find anybody to turn to. Trafficmaster understands the stress that many travellers have experienced and to help support travellers in such situations it is willing to offer its International Rescue emergency assistance service for free for the next week - normally priced at £20 a month or £65 a year. International Rescue is an emergency assistance service accessed via a mobile phone. Recently launched by Trafficmaster, the service provides direct contact with a team of English speaking experts, who can help in an emergency. These trained specialists will provide their expertise for free over the next seven days – starting from the 23rd April to 30th April. International Rescue works with a network of authorised trained emergency and rescue partners, who are located in 44 countries* across Europe, as well as in South Africa and Brazil. These emergency assistance partners work with the local emergency services to try and get help to you. “Trafficmaster has a unique service,that could provide assistance to travellers in an emergency ” states Terfel Roberts, Head of International Rescue. “We felt if we could assist any UK travellers who may be in desperate need whilst they are still stuck abroad, then we can do some good in this ongoing travel crisis.” For travellers abroad who need an emergency service, such as ambulance, police, fire, mountain rescue or coast guard, but are struggling to make direct contact with the locally available services, possibly because of local language difficulties, dial the International Rescue number on: 0044 1234 759 147You will have no need to worry about speaking the local language as our team speaks English. They will take all the details about your location and the nature of the emergency and pass the details on to our local partner who will liaise with the relevant emergency service on your behalf. In addition the International Rescue teams will notify your UK based contacts if required. International Rescue is part of the Trafficmaster Companion suite of travel services, which includes UK based satellite navigation, live traffic information and 24 hour personal assistants. For more information about International Rescue and Trafficmaster’s other mobile and smart phone applications go to www.trafficmaster.co.uk ENDS *Countries covered: Andorra, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Estonia, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungaria, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine