OUR campaign to prevent another joyriding tragedy in York by showing a hard-hitting film to teenagers has entered an important new phase.

Film producer Christopher David, who has thrown his support behind the Live Now, Drive Later campaign, began filming yesterday.

He aims to create an emotional film of ten to 15 minutes which will forcefully spell out the potential risks of deciding to take and drive off in a car.

The film is set to be shown as part of a roadshow to every 15-year-old in York by the Safer York Partnership's Road Safety Task Group.

Mr David, who is boss of York-based Flash Flame Productions, came to The Press building in Walmgate to film Annie Greenwood, who suffered massive facial and other injuries in a crash in York in 1990.

Interviewed by Chief Reporter Mike Laycock, she told how she was lying in intensive care when a young man was brought in suffering serious injuries after being involved in a joy riding crash, and later died.

Annie, 65, of Dringhouses, showed pictures of the horrific facial injuries she suffered after her crash in Poppleton Road, in which every bone in her face was broken.

The campaign was launched after an inquest was held into a triple fatal crash in Stockton Lane last April.

Fifteen-year-old Joel Corner, a popular and well-liked boy, took his father's Audi and drove it around York at high speed before losing control in Stockton Lane and crashing into a Press delivery van in an "explosion of dust." Joel, his friend and front seat passenger Daniel Wright, also 15, and van driver Peter Alexander, 57, were all killed. Mr David, who has shot pop videos, documentaries, dramas and commercials, working with stars including David Jason and Rory Bremner, says he has been deeply moved by our coverage of the crash and its tragic aftermath.

The campaign has the strong backing of Joel's parents and Mr Alexander's son, Stuart, who hope that the film will prevent other families going through the trauma they have suffered.

They have agreed to be interviewed for the film next week. Others to be interviewed include Barrie Stoves, a teenager who got out of Joel's car just before the crash, Helen Power, who lost an arm after being thrown out of a car which was being taken on a joy ride in the 1990s and Jamie Robinson, a teenager who escaped unhurt after joy-riding through York last autumn and crashing at high speed into a lamppost.