Youngsters given hard-hitting road safety message

Date: 8/10/2010

Young people in Cornwall have received a hard-hitting road safety message from individuals who have personally experienced the tragic consequences of car accidents.

At an event in Falmouth organised by the Cornwall Council Road Safety Unit, college students were told: "A moment of madness, a lifetime of sadness."

They heard accounts of road collisions from emergency service crew members and a mother whose daughter was killed in a car incident.

Darren Benney, Community Fire Safety Advisor, said: "Young drivers are a very vulnerable, inexperienced group, involved in disproportionately high numbers of collisions on our roads."

He added those who coordinated the event hope to make a "real difference" to the number of people aged between 17 and 24 who are killed or injured on Cornish roads.

The Swindon Advertiser recently reported pupils at Wootton Bassett School also heard real-life accounts of road accidents at a Stay Alive Roadshow run by Wiltshire Fire Service.

Posted by Sarah Bailey