Tamworth 2023 Young Drivers Expo
Young students learn the perils of dangerous driving at the 2023 Tamworth Young Drivers Expo on Wednesday, August 30.
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00:00 [crowd noise]
00:08 And now I'm going to interview another young man who unfortunately made some poor choices in his life as well.
00:14 He's the only man who actually sat through this expo, like you guys, and thought,
00:20 "This is not going to happen to me." Sat listening to somebody and went, "This won't happen to me."
00:24 So he's going to talk to you today about a series of bad choices that he made that affected his life,
00:30 the life of his best mate, and the families of the wider community. So this is Jesse's story.
00:35 I had everything before, Jack. I was a 19-year-old. I had my best mate. I had a car. I had a job.
00:40 Now I've started everything from scratch. Everything I worked towards is now going towards a prison.
00:46 And it's my fault.
00:48 So, again, I think it was loud. It was scary. I had vivid hallucinations to the point where I was screaming.
00:57 [crash]
01:00 Help! Is anybody there? Please help me.
01:05 Stay calm. Help is on the way.
01:07 [crash]
01:09 That sounds like the old... Yeah, I can at least hear the old voice.
01:13 [Jesse reading]
01:39 This crash doesn't just affect your life, but also the people around you.
01:45 After what was meant to be a fun night out, we have a young driver arrested.
01:54 Off to the police station to be charged.
01:58 [indistinct chatter]
02:08 [indistinct chatter]
02:14 Don't copy me.
02:17 As Willie said, this is called a B-triple.
02:22 It's equivalent to a road train. It's 34.5 metres long at 55 kilometres an hour.
02:30 If you wanted to overtake it, it's going to take you one minute.
02:35 [indistinct chatter]
02:40 [thunder]
02:51 So the important part to take away from that is we've only increased our speed by double.
02:57 We've gone from 40 up to 80, and we've actually quadrupled our stopping distance.
03:05 Yeah! There we go.
03:08 [tires screeching]
03:10 [crash]
03:12 [indistinct chatter]
03:16 [BLANK_AUDIO]