THE Safe Drive Stay Alive campaign, which aims to make young drivers and passengers aware of risks on the roads, will be shown over the next two weeks to 14,000 students across the Thames Valley.
This will be the third year the Safe Drive Stay Alive theatre event will be shown to 16-18-year-olds. The film shows a group of young people on a night out whose car is involved in a collision and explores the circumstances that can lead to a crash and the consequences that follow.
Members of the emergency services will step onto the stage at specific times in the film and talk about their real-life experiences and what action they would be taking if this was a real-life experience.
Speaking this year at the events will be a couple whose 22-year-old son was killed in a crash near Thame in 2004. They will all be joined by a young man who was left paralysed after a crash in Oxfordshire.
Every week more than two people die and around 180 are injured in collisions on the roads in the Thames Valley. The campaign is run by Thames Valley Police, three fire and rescue services, South Central Ambulance NHS Trust, hospital accident and emergency staff, road safety officers from councils across the region and the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership.
Find more information about the Safe Drive Stay Alive campaign and competitions at safedrive.org.uk
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