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Old 29-04-10, 02:36 AM   #9
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Default Re: "Drive Safely" video

A lot of those clips have been played on TV. the one that was mentioned about about the girl and boy on the wall, that was a Northern Irish advert.

I live in an area which has quite a high proportion of fatal and serious injury RTCs, mainly involving young locals. It's a horrible, horrible thing. A girl I went to school with died when she was 17, about a month or so after passing her test. Another local lad, who also went to school with us turned up and basically watched her dying, there was nothing he could do.

I missed being involved in a triple fatal RTC by about 20 minutes a few years ago. I was just out of college and was on my driving course. I left about half an hour earlier to go to my digs near to HQ than what I normally would. Had I left at my usual time I would have been either involved or been a witness. Was basically three cars full of lads, racing on a main arterial route. One car overtook on a blind bend, crossing double whites into an overtaking lane and crashed into a girl and her boyfriend. His two passengers died, the girl driving the other car died and her boyfriend was left with severe brain damage. Two, or maybe three, of the boys are currently serving jail sentences.

Driving like that not only ruins the lives of the dead and their families, but also the drivers who have to live with it for the rest of their lives.
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