A HARD-HITTING virtual experience of what it is like to be involved in a fatal car crash will be introduced to Barnsley later this year.
South Yorkshire Fire Service has funded ten virtual headsets which will be coupled with dramatic videos to help alert young drivers to common dangers.
Fire service safety officers will work with South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership to use the kit at school visits and community events in the hope that the shocking footage makes young people think twice about their behaviour on the roads.
Users will wear a virtual reality headset and experience a full crash scene extrication from the arrival of the emergency services, while being talked through the process by a paramedic.
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