Youths speak at international injury prevention seminar
Written by Tom Benjamin.
Ensuring all car bulbs are working is one way of avoiding accidents on the roads, but tomorrow (November 11th) young people from the UK will be giving further advice on how to avoid crashes at an international injury prevention seminar.
The three-day seminar, which began in Birmingham today, is being hosted by the Child Safety Education Coalition and AdRisk (the Community Action on Adolescents and Injury Risk project, a European initiative).
Following a focus on practical safety education on day one of the seminar (yesterday), the main focus of the second day will be youth participation in strategies to prevent unintended injuries such as road traffic injuries, drowning, poisoning, burns and scalds and trips and falls.
Among tomorrow’s speakers will be singer-songwriter Katie Benbow, 16, of Rhyl, Denbighshire, who wrote a song and appeared in a video in memory of her friend David Wares, 22, who was killed in a car crash last year while racing a friend.
The website of motor industry self-regulatory body, Motor Codes, is currently giving advice to people about how to avoid accidents during the winter, when driving conditions are more difficult.
