St Mary’s Catholic College Year 11 students Naomi Baldacchino, Jesse Mould, Jessica Ryan, Grace Thompson and Charlotte Piper with Kingaroy Rotary member Les Airs and RYDA presenter Darron Shields, from PBF Australia … Darron became a paraplegic in a cycling crash

May 3, 2018

Road safety should be uppermost in the minds of another group of South Burnett Year 11 students after several hundred students were put through another RYDA program in Kingaroy this week.

Students from Murgon and Nanango State High Schools, and St Mary’s Catholic College, gathered at the Kingaroy TAFE campus on Thursday to gain insights from police and expert volunteers.

(Kingaroy State High School were scheduled to do the event on Friday.)

The RYDA program has been developed by the not-for-profit Road Safety Education group in conjunction with Rotary.

It includes real-life stories of road trauma as well as tips on how to stay safe.

It is is held around Australia every year in a bid to lower the risk of young, inexperienced drivers being involved in a car crash.

This is the eighth year that RYDA has been run in the South Burnett.

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Acting Sergeant Chris Watson, from the Gympie Road Policing Unit, and Senior Constable Jade Miller, from the Kingaroy Road Policing Unit, with Nanango State High School Year 11 students
Acting Sergeant Watson and Senior Constable Miller were demonstrating the various factors that affect brake stopping distances … on this occasion the crash-test dummy required a medevac
Rotary RYDA Road Safety Education facilitator Shayne Ralph, centre, was exploring “The ‘I’ In Drive” with Year 11 St Mary’s students, including Jaymee Van Dyk, Nicole Bauer and Tia Kanay
Kingaroy Rotary members, including Mick McAuliffe and Des Cook, above, were shepherding the students between the various demonstration areas
Col Rogerson, from South Burnett Motorcycle Rider Training, was taking the students through various hazards and distractions
Kingaroy SES members, including Joe Hafemeister and Peter Sailes, were making sure that no traffic travelled down Geritz Road while the braking demonstrations were taking place

 

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