Wrecked car shocks young motorists

Friday 15th July 2011, 11:30AM BST.

Kieran Jones, 20. and Stuart Moorat, 21, look at a crashed car. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1159584)

A SMASHED-UP car shocked an audience of more than 40 young drivers at a presentation last night.

The event at the Grammar School was organised by all three emergency services after 22-year-old Shane Rouget wrote to the police chief, asking why he and his friends were being unfairly targeted.

The young audience was shown how services had to cope with a fatal crash at the Forest Road in 2003 and the emotional scars it left on the personnel who were called in to help.

Traffic sergeant John Tostevin fielded most of the questions and felt the evening had hopefully changed how young people drove and given them a better relationship with the police.