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Car crash simulator aims to improve UK road safety
Mon, 19 Apr 2010

An emergency services worker from Lincolnshire has developed the UK’s first car crash simulator in a bid to help reduce the number of road traffic accidents that occur on the nation’s roads.

Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership will use the modified Peugeot 206, which has been built by Steve Screaton of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, to target drivers aged 17 to 24, i.e. those who are most likely to be involved in road accidents .

The crash car simulator seats five people at a time and uses a DVD screen, high quality sound, a smoke machine and a hydraulic suspension system to provide a realistic impression of a real accident.

John Siddle of Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership commented: "I have been in it myself and it is very realistic. It is as close as you can possibly get without being involved in an accident yourself."

"It goes through the motions of being driven at high speed and then simulates a crash. Then it goes through the scenario of the emergency services arriving at the scene and people being cut out of the car . You can even hear people inside the car shouting for help."

He said that some people have come out of the simulator "with a very changed outlook on how they are going to behave in a motor vehicle ".

The simulator is being taken to various events across the country. "It is being used all over the place but we are particularly trying to focus on modified car clubs," Mr Siddle added.
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