Organisation: Surrey Fire & Rescue Service (Surrey CC)
Date uploaded: 22nd April 2013
Date published/launched: Pre 2009
Safe Drive, Stay Alive comprises a live stage show based around a filmed reconstruction of a road traffic collision delivering hard-hitting messages about the dangers associated with driving.
This award winning initiative is designed to prevent young people being killed or seriously injured on our roads.
This high impact performance traces events leading up to a road traffic collision and then follows the actions of the emergency services dealing with the incident. At appropriate moments the film is paused whilst police, ambulance, fire and rescue and accident and emergency staff speak of their own experiences at the scene and of the aftermath.
For maximum effect, volunteer members of the public also take to the stage with personal stories about how their lives have affected by a fatal collision.
Real stories of life, loss, tragedy and regret leave the air heavy with raw emotion and impress upon the audience that their future is in their hands.
Safe Drive Stay Alive, aims to “positively influence the attitudes of young drivers by providing them with a taste of reality, along with information to enable them to make an informed choice about how they decide to drive”.
Since April 2005, 80 000 young people have attended one of 137 performances at Dorking Halls, with up to 19 more performances scheduled for November 2013.
For more information contact:
Mark Taylor
T: 01737 733515
Sounds an excellent iniative which has clearly had staying power. Cleveland Fire Brigade delivers a similar package called Learn & Live involving hard hitting impact education footage supported by emergency services , road safety professionals and those personally affected. 65,000 people across the Cleveland area have seen the Learn & Live Road Safety presentation since it’s inception in 2005.