Two men from the garda came into the TYs to talk about road safety. The men started going through the presentation. They had a few main topics that they talked to the TYs about. They first started with speed and they played a video of a collision that happened a while ago. A biker went over the speed limit and he wasn't able to swerve or stop during a turn where a car turned into him. The garda talked about the importance of staying within the speed limit as that could give drivers time to react and avoid collisions.
Next, they talked about seatbelts. They showed a short video of what would happen if the seatbelt hadn't been worn, which some TYs found interesting as the injuries were mainly sustained from the windshield breaking and glass cutting the face. After seatbelts, they talked about mobile phones. They showed a video of a group of young people being asked if they use their phones when driving. All of them said yes, they do use it. At the end of the video, a young woman who had been in a car crash because someone using their phone while driving swerved into her car when trying to avoid ramming into another vehicle. Her parents had both been killed in the crash and she herself had become partially paralyzed. The TYs found that video very emotional as the mistake of one driver had taken two people away from the girl's life.
The last topic was on drunk drivers and the video shown was an ad for road safety of a young boy being killed by a drunk driver. The garda talked about how the designated driver should never drink and even if they do, they should never go above the limit. They talked about the alcohol test that is done on the side of a road and the other test that is done in the station 20 minutes later to find out exactly how much alcohol is in the system.
The TYs were really glad for the opportunity to listen to that talk as they learnt a lot of things. Such small things can cause such big accidents and simple things can be done to prevent that. The stories that they talked about were very sad to hear but the TYs were glad to have heard them as they now know what can happen if they don't think about road safety.