The 2014 Youth Alchol Expo is on, here are some highlights from the Expo so far. Click on the images to read what is happening in each.
The first two sessions of the 2014 Hawkes Bay Youth Alcohol Expo got underway today. Schools will be attending over the week. Part of the Expo includes a photo booth where students can post a road safety message on sober driving.
The Expo provides an opportunity for young people, families, friends and the general public to see first hand the impact a vehicle crash can have on everyone. This also includes emergency services, hospitals and rehabilitation services. This can change a person/s life for ever. If we can even stop one more young person from being killed or injured, we will continue to work together to do so. The Expo is also supported by the regions emergency services. The students are able to practice CPR while attending the Expo. Students see first hand the effects a crash can have on the vehicle occupants.
The Fire Service will attend the Expo this year. The students have the opportunity to sit in the Subaru which has been equipped with a TV screen that shows the impacts of a crash.
As part of the learning experience the students experience the effects of being impaired by drugs, the simulation uses 'fatal vision goggles' that simulate the effects of drugs. They are then required to undertake the road side drug impairment test. Students are shown that being 'stoned' has the same effects on a person's ability to drive safely as does alcohol.
Directions and Health Hawkes Bay will again team up this year and attend the 2014 HB Youth Alcohol Expo. Directions is a Youth Health Service situated in Omahu Road Hastings.
The Public Health Nurses from the HB District Health Board also support the road safety messages at the Expo. They provide information on how to access health services along with other messages as well.
Red Cross provides a safety message at the Expo, look after your mates when you go out socialising. Have a safe way to get home and plan this before you go out.
The HB Youth Alcohol Expo is supported by staff from Hawkes Bay Police. The attendees are able to go through the 'Booze Bus which is used for Alcohol Checkpoints. The message is anyone, anywhere, anytime....the bigger message is "don't end up in this situation...driver sober, make sure your driver is sober and plan a safe way home before you go out.
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