On the 18th of March around 80 senior students from Mt Aspiring College and Cromwell College attended RYDA (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) at Highlands Motor Park.
The students were taught not just road rules but real-life decisions when getting behind the wheel of a car. There were 6 workshops that the students attended, Speed and Stopping distances, Distractions, Alcohol and Drugs, Fatigue, Peer Pressure and Risk Awareness and Consequences.
RYDA teaches students to become safer drivers and passengers, to make better choices behind the wheel and to understand how quickly things can go wrong and hopefully reducing road accidents and fatalities.
The workshops that I attended I found students to be engaging asking a lot of relevant questions. A lot of the students already have either their learner’s licence or their restricted licence. So hopefully they came away more informed before getting into a car.
Thanks to Rotarians Sue, Jan, Fin and Lyall for helping on the day.
