Will Rogers Memorial Day 2024
Will Rogers Memorial Day 2024
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00:00I'm Mandy Oliver, I'm Will Rogers's mum. Will was killed by a hit-and-run driver
00:06in April 2022. He was a big rugby player, a big part of the community, he was just a
00:14gentle giant, absolutely gentle giant. Today we're having the Will Rogers
00:19memorial game, which is made up of Will's old team mates, and we've also got some that have decided they want to come and play with the other,
00:29we've got the Bulls, which was Will's team, and then two players, James Riley and Ryan Hazle-Darling, have made another team up and they've got players coming from Portsmouth.
00:39Our team, captains, Alex Hill, they also played with Will. It's just something that we do for Will and his family.
00:51Everybody is just so, so kind and for me personally, they've just been the most
00:57amazing support, absolutely amazing support. It's all for Will, it's Will's day. The charity that we're doing the
01:09fundraising for is Road Peace, and Road Peace have supported people like me that
01:15lost somebody or somebody seriously injured due to a road collision. My main
01:23focus with Road Peace is to get the law changed because the individual that
01:27killed Will was found £95 for harming Will and a four-month driving ban.
01:33It's the same if you go and hit somebody's wing mirror, it's the same
01:39charge, so we want it to be altered. I mean, the law was made a long, long time
01:44ago where you had 24 hours to report it, but back then we hadn't got mobile
01:50phones and technology, so we want to get that timescale shortened down and also
01:56more harsh penalties for, you know, for killing somebody, for taking somebody's life.
02:02But yeah, I mean, Road Peace are amazing, absolutely amazing, and we always say it's
02:06the family that you never ever want to be part of, but you're so pleased that you have
02:10got. We support each other a lot as well. It's a bit like the rugby club really,
02:13everybody supports everybody, and that's like Will. Will wanted to help
02:19everybody. Bless him.