Car safety requires that car owners regularly check their car breaking systems, air bags, and replace any worn or damaged parts (including wing mirrors and lights). When things do go wrong on the road then seat belts are a life and death matter. Asda shoppers got an affirming demonstration of this truth when a community safety team from Wakefield Fire Station ran its ‘buckle up’ campaign. The event took place in the car park of Asda at Durkar on Saturday and volunteers got a first hand experience of the kind of heavy extraction machinery that is used to rescue victims from mangled wreckages.

Speaking on the matter, community safety watch manager Paul Uttley said:

 “We have been running our Seat Belt On campaign with the council’s road safety team and the police since April and at Saturday’s roadshow we demonstrated what would happen if you don’t wear a seatbelt and are involved in a crash.

“Two crews from Red Watch came down and Jo Aldridge, the events organiser from Asda, bravely volunteered to be cut out. If you’ve never experienced a crash before it is hard to imagine the experience of being cut out of a car, it’s much louder than you would think, with lots of crashes and bangs and broken glass.

 “A lot of the shoppers said they had got a lot out of it and would definitely be strapping up in the future.”

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