Live demonstration of road traffic collision to be held in Scarborough
Emergency services will be in Scarborough town centre tomorrow acting out a rescue
There is going to be a live demonstration of a road traffic collision in Scarborough town centre tomorrow.
It will involve firefighters, police, paramedics and volunteers from the Youth Justice Agency who will re-enact a crash and the rescue of casualties afterwards.
It is part of a campaign to highlight the consequences of drink driving over the festive period and to promote driver safety.
It will take place tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd December) between 10am and 4pm outside the Brunswick Shopping Centre.
Advice will be given throughout the day from all the agencies too.
Scarborough Fire Station Manager, Graeme Casper, said: “This campaign is key to help ensure we jointly emphasise the message that drink and drunk driving kills. I encourage the community to come along and engage with us."
Chris Spurden, Fire Crew Manager of Scarborough's White Watch, said: "It's basically to education and inform the public on the dangers and quite frankly the stark consequences of drink and drug driving. So we'll set up a vehicle and scenario in Scarborough town centre, there's a bit of a narrative that we'll run through and it'll run through the process of potentially what would happen if you were drink or drug driving.
"It hasn't happened in the last four years but prior to that it went down really, really well. It's quite sobering quite frankly, the things we have to take on board is that the personnel from both ourselves, police and the ambulance service have actually been to real incidents like this. It does hit home to the public when they see us doing our jobs.
"We'll simulate a family who have been out Christmas shopping, they've decided to go to the pub, jumped in the car having had too much to drink and then the scenario is from there, so basically they've had a road traffic collision on the way home and then what we'll do is we'll show what each service does throughout that.
"The police will arrive, they'll breathalyse the driver and if they're over the limit then they'll be arrested and that will be simulated, the fire service will turn up and carry out some cutting procedures of the vehicle, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service will carry out the trauma care and this year we'll be using live casualties."