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Year 11 pupils experience playground reconstruction

Mangled vehicles and blood stained bodies were strewn around the playground at a Surrey school in a reconstruction exercise aimed at raising awareness of the human and financial coasts of road accidents.

Representatives of Surrey Police and the county's fire and rescue service assisted Surrey County Council's road safety group in staging the daylong event for year 11 pupils at Glebelands School, Cranleigh. The event involved real crashed vehicles and gruesome injury make-up by St John Ambulance volunteers.

The Glebelands pupils also attended sessions covering road user behaviour and drink driving.  

Surrey RSO Zoe Gamblin said: "The reconstruction showed just how unprepared the children - and in fact all of us - are to deal with a serious accident.

"I cannot praise the emergency services enough for the way they communicated with the children and taught from their own experiences. Because of their participation the children were able to work out their own ideas, not just follow what other people were telling them to do. I think the exercise reinforces what we already knew - that young people learn by doing."

For further information contact Zoe Gamblin, 01483 517415.