Road Safety

Last Thursday our year had a talk on Road Safety from the Garda Traffic Corps. The talk was to raise awareness of road safety and the rules of the road. It was really interesting because the speaker used his own life experience and stories from his years of working in the Traffic Corps to help us understand the dangers that go along with careless driving. He began by telling us some of the statistics from the past few years. He then went on to explain to us some of the main reasons for collisions on our roads today. The main causes are, speeding, using mobile phones while driving, drink driving and fatigue. We learned that young male drivers are the most at risk on the roads, the reason for this is because young male drivers become very confident in themselves and their driving skills once they have passed their driving test and believe they can handle any situation that is thrown at them, when really this is not true because driving takes years of experience and the more experience you have, the better you will be able to handle certain situations.We then watched videos about road safety, drink driving and speeding. Some of the videos were really graphic, but they definitely made us realise that the choices we make have an affect on the other users of the road. Overall it was a really interesting talk and it was definitely worthwhile. 

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