Road safety for sixth formers and college students
Most young people want to drive - after all it is a ‘rite of passage’ to becoming an adult.
Becoming a driver unfortunately increases the risk of being killed or seriously injured in a road related car crash. Young drivers are statistically more at risk of a road related car crash and injury. Of all crashes, 26% involve at least one 17- 24 year old car driver.
We provide a programme which offers a number of opportunities for experts to come into school and pass onto students vital knowledge and experience that may well save their lives and maybe the lives of other road users in the future, with minimal staff or planning and preparation time required.
Targeted interventions maximise the effectiveness of our message, research shows that shock tactics are not always appropriate and it is important that Road Safety messages are delivered by fully trained experienced staff.
The programme includes:
- ‘Too Young to Die’- a presentation including a hard-hitting DVD on the consequences of irresponsible driving and being a passenger with a young driver, and encourages discussion with pupils on the topics raised.
- ‘To Drive or Not To Drive’- a presentation covering Driving Licence regulations for riders and drivers, what vehicle documentation is required, driver and passenger safety, the consequences of traffic offences. Students will learn the key rules to being safe on roads, including not speeding, not drinking or taking drugs, belting up and avoiding driver distractions, and not getting in with someone who might drive dangerously.
- ‘Fatal Distractions’- a 20 minute DVD based around a fatal road collision is intended for use by teachers and educators to explore the circumstances and consequences of irresponsible driving. The accompanying lesson plan allows the students to establish their own views on how these collisions can be prevented and stress the importance of taking personal responsibility.
- Road Safety Awareness Presentations - two separate presentations given by an officer from Cheshire Constabulary. These are aimed at Year 13 groups who are in the process of, or have recently passed their driving test, and their passengers.
Topics covered are:
- Common causes of collisions,
- Passenger Safety,
- Road back to ‘L’ (six points and you return to learner status),
- Preparing your own vehicle for the journey,
- Safer driving schemes
- Consequences of a road traffic collision
Cheers Bar
The Cheers Bar initiative is a non-alcoholic bar that is set up in a recreation area set aside for the 6th Form. Students are encouraged into discussion about the strength of alcohol, the time the body takes to eliminate it from the blood stream and the pressures to drink and drive, drug use etc.The Cheers Bar creates a space where informal relationships with the students can be developed so that messages about alcohol and drugs can be transferred. Impairment goggles are used to demonstrate the effect that alcohol and drugs have on perception. To book a Cheers Bar, contact us at: roadsafety@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk.
As a unit we are flexible and responsive and endeavour to deliver our programme to every school in Cheshire West. For further information, please contact us at roadsafety@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk .