The Safe Drive Stay Alive campaign is an innovative theatre education project involving sixth formers in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, UK. The students were shown a film of four young people on a night out. The three passengers encourage the driver to go faster and to overtake a car. The driver loses control and crashes into a tree. A rear seat passenger, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was thrown forwards hitting the windscreen. On stage, a police officer, paramedic, fire and rescue officer and accident and emergency share their experiences of the accident and how it affected them personally. This was then followed by accounts from two parents who lost their son in a fatal road collision, a student who lost his friend in a collision and a person who was left paralysed after a motorbike collision. The responses of the students and their parents to the initiative are outlined.
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