| Road safety charity Brake has launched a | | | | responsible motoring, and Safer Roads for |
| hard-hitting campaign called 2 Young 2 Die, which | | | | Cumbria set up a micro-blog service named |
| aims to highlight the dangers young drivers face | | | | Twitter for young people to log on to online. |
| when they or those around them, drive | | | | The website launched to lead the 2 Young 2 Die |
| recklessly. | | | | campaign by Brake, carries some very powerful |
| Spearheaded by a new website the charity hope | | | | images and real life stories. The gruesome details |
| to help to cut the number of deaths on | | | | of injuries that young people have sustained that |
| Britain’s roads involving young people. | | | | appear on the site are aimed to shock drivers in |
| Statistics released by the AA make for some | | | | to thinking about their actions and the effect they |
| grim reading with 13 people aged between 15 and | | | | can have on themselves, their families and other |
| 25 years old being killed in accidents on UK roads | | | | people. |
| every week. | | | | Relatives and friends of teenage crash victims |
| Alarmingly, despite only one in eight motorists in | | | | give their poignant accounts of losing someone |
| Britain being under the age of 25 years old, | | | | close to them and paramedics and doctors talk |
| almost a quarter of all fatalities caused because of | | | | openly about the horrendous images they have |
| car accidents involve people from this age group. | | | | encountered at a crash scene. They also talk of |
| The AA also revealed that in 2007, of all the | | | | the real possibility of drivers and passengers being |
| passengers who died or who were seriously | | | | left paralysed or brain damaged after a |
| injured in a motor vehicle collision in the UK, 40 | | | | high-speed collision. |
| per cent were travelling in a car driven by a | | | | The road safety charity also poses the question, |
| young person. | | | | ‘could you live with yourself?’ if you were |
| Organisations have tried to highlight the issues of | | | | behind the wheel of a car that killed your |
| road safety and the necessity for young driver | | | | ‘best mate’ or an elderly person or even |
| car insurance in the past, yet the accident figures | | | | a child. |
| remain at a disturbing level. | | | | Although accident figures remain at an appalling |
| Young people in Scotland were sent images and | | | | level, road safety campaigns such as this one are |
| film clips from road crashes to their mobile | | | | helping to save the lives of hundreds of people |
| phones in a bid to stress the message of | | | | every year. |