Students Get Some Road Safety Shocks
10 June 2008
Longridge Towers School Sixth Form students were yesterday given a Road Safety Awareness insight from Berwick Fire Brigade. The event, held at school was to highlight to the senior pupils the dangers that may be involved when they take to the road driving behind the wheel of a car.
The event was organised by Leading Fire Fighter Hogg, who was particularly keen to talk to the students about road safety awareness at this, a crucial time for many of them as they consider sitting their driving tests. He highlighted to the students that cars were not toys and that they must understand the dangers involved on the roads.
After their very informative talk and video presentation in the new ICT suite, Sub Officer Scott Ruddock then led the Longridge students through a practical exercise. This exercise really brought the message home, as two students were put inside a wrecked car and the officers quite literally cut them out of the wreckage. The scene was set as a crash, the glass was removed from the car, the doors were taken off with power tools and the roof cut off to lift the students, William Kwan and Helen Latheron, free.
It is an extremely difficult process to cut someone from a car, and this practical demonstration certainly highlighted this to the students and had a real impact on them, making them realise the severity of irresponsible driving.
Mr Richard Notman, Assistant Head Teacher at Longridge comments: “The students basically were given some reality about the inherent dangers involved in driving a car. Although the presentation was exceptionally important the practical exercise brought a real sense of reality to the whole activity. We are very grateful to the Red Watch Team from Berwick Fire Station for completing this extremely important session with the students and hopefully helping to keep them safe for the future.”
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