Hawke's Bay youth learn about drink driving

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Wed, 11 May 2011 10:52p.m.

Hawke's Bay has today launched an aggressive campaign targeting teenage drink drivers.

More than 2000 students from around the region are attending this week's Youth Alcohol Expo to experience first hand the devastating effects of drink driving.

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18 May 2011 02:22p.m.

Tori Morrison wrote:

As a speaker at the HB Youth Alcohol Expo, a mother of a victim of a drunk not drugged driver, I am sickened to say the least, by G Mcdermott's comments. he clearly was not at any of the 7 presentations and therefore has no right to make such damming and unsubstantiated remarks. I wonder If he had lost or had a child critically injured by a drunk driver,would he be so critical of Road Safe Hawkes Bay. The feedback from students,parents and teachers has been all positive. The only despicable thing, are your highly Insensitve and naive comments.

12 May 2011 12:48p.m.

Graham McDermott wrote:

NZTA and the Regional Council should not be funding Road Safe Hawkes Bay, or their likes, to provide 1980's styled youth Alcohol Expos to deter drink driving - in the Police ESR study of a 5 year crop of dead drivers just 12 (8%) out of the total 140 dead teen drivers had used just alcohol, but 46 (33%) of them had used cannabis.

"The proportion of drivers in the age group of 15 to 19, using alcohol and driving, is low relative to the older age groups, up to 40 years old. This contrasts with the high proportion using cannabis and driving" noted Police scientists authoring the report.

Teens in RoadSafe audiences will die by receiving the wrong message. The negligence is even more serious given NZ signed the UN Convention on the rights of the child.

Article 17 specifies that children have the right to get information that is important to their health and well-being.

Instilling terror over drink driving, at a time other risk drugs have long been far more prevalent in roadkilled Kiwi kids is deceptive, and likely to transmit a clear message that teens should continue to substitute dope.

Steven Joyce mewed platitudes about drug driving education on Close Up in March 2009, since then several dozen dead drug driving teenagers since, nurtured into Hades by idiotic road safety messages, that are the equivalent of telling children to look left but not right when crossing the road.

Steven Joyce needs to ensure NZTA desists from funding alcohol expos that are wasting resources, hunt down those responsible for ongoing unfit killer communications, and shrink the Public service by shedding all those who are conspiring to conceal drug driving risk - Candor can name names.

An expanded vision for health promotion, built on evidence not assumptions, is long overdue. Apologies are owed to teen graves, and the future dead among RoadSafe Hawkes Bays duped audience. Roadsafe Hawkes Bay is killing kids with OTT messages. It's despicable.