The island’s rescue services were at the Grammar School yesterday as part of a road safety initiative. They brought with them a car which had been involved in a crash. Front row from the left, paramedic Carrie Goodall, Emily Grissith, 16, Tom Finnerty, 16, and Claudia Aguiar, 16. Back row, from left, paramedic Lorna Harborow, Josh Gabriel, 17, Leo Chamberlain, 16 and Rhianna Sanchez-Watts, 16. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0676517)

‘WE GIVE people a licence to drive, not to kill,’ was the message hammered home to Grammar School students yesterday.

The police, Ambulance and Rescue and Fire & Rescue Services joined forces and added a badly damaged crashed car to a multimedia presentation to Years 11, 12 and 13 pupils.

Sergeant John Tostevin said the question they were asking the students was whether they would like to see themselves in the car, which had been damaged after hitting a a granite wall.

Steve Wilkes, from the Fire & Rescue Service, was responsible for showing the car to the students.

‘This was a local car in a crash this year. I’m not here to tell you how to drive, but if you’re speeding, drinking or using drugs and driving, the next time you will see me will be when I’m cutting you out the car,’ he said.

‘We’re not here to lecture the students about driving, we just want to give them the information to prevent something like this happening,’ said Sergeant Tostevin.