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Road Safety Awareness week

Road Safety Awareness Week by Eimear Gilhooly.

As a Transition Year student in  Presentation Secondary School Wexford, I am delighted to say that we have done alot of preparation for Road Safety Awareness Week.
From day one of Transition year, we had a Road Safety module as part of our transition year program. Our teacher, Ms. Curran, taught us many things about road safety and also helped us plan events leading up to and during Road Safety Awareness Week.
Personally, this module opened my eyes to the dangers on the road. So it was time to open everyones! The posters committee made bright and colourful posters highlighting road safety and hung them all over the school. Some our senior students gave presentations and talks to the junior end of the school. This had a major impact, as everyone began to notice the posters and learn more about road safety.
The posters were such a hit, we came up with the idea turning the school into a massive road! With the help of Ms. Curran, the organisers committee printed lots of road signs to stick up in the corridors to creat the illusion of being on a road. They also stuck paper on the floor as a broken white line. The best part, is the ongoing competition. The announcements committee make daily announcements over the intercom with a road safety question, linked with the road signs hanging up. Students must answer the question correctly, in order to win a prize!
As if all of that was not enough, we went to the cinema for a presentation on road safety. We saw the devastating affects on drivers. We witnessed the price families will pay for many simple reasons, such as speed, not wearing a seatbelt, driver fatigue, drink driving, driving with no headlights on etc. All of which, CAN be prevented.
In conjunction with our preparation for Road Safety Awareness Week, we have the R.S.A. Road Safety Shuttle bus and simulator. The bus provided us with many facilities. We each did an awareness test, which shocked everyone! We got our reaction time tested, which proved how dangerous speed can be. We also used a machine to show us the affect that one would have 'under the influence', while driving. For me the scariest part of our experience on the shuttle bus was when we sat in a rotating car! When we sat in a car, with our seatbelts tight and secure, the car rotated a full 360 degrees. It was terrifing! When we got out of the car, we were asked to imagine what it would be like faster and with no seatbelt on. That alone frightened me so much, that I wish everyone could experience it as I did, in a controlled environment.
We hope that all students in Presentation Secondary School Wexford are now more aware of road safety, and will carry the message with them forever.
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