FIREFIGHTERS will simulate a car crash to highlight the dangers of drink driving during an event this week.
North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service will join forces with the 95 Alive York and North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership to demonstrate the effects of a head-on collision by suspending a vehicle from a crane and dropping it more than 30ft on to concrete below.
The fire service’s road rescue team will then go into action to extract a “casualty” from the vehicle, with North Yorkshire Police’s collision investigation team providing information on the wider implications of such an accident.
Friday’s event, at British Energy Eggborough Power Station, in East Yorkshire, forms part of the 95 Alive Partnership’s summer drink-drive campaign which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving on North Yorkshire’s roads.
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