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Young driver deaths renew call for Graduated Driving Licences · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Urim quite fine. God it a Demascleus or clear Green.
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  Speaker 2: I can think of certainly too. Fatality I've been to
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  Speaker 2: on Christmas Day, which is always going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be difficult.
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  Speaker 4: It might be the first time that they're actually aware
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  Speaker 4: that they've had an amputational they're actually paralyzed.
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  Speaker 5: Three or three four fifty canaia. The profile, the news,
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  Speaker 5: the tragedy is nothing to what that parent feels when
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  Speaker 5: you tell them that their child has come.
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  Speaker 2: They are the front line, the first to arrive to
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  Speaker 2: the most distressing of seeds, the first to try and
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  Speaker 2: save those critically ill. All of them are impacted in
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  Speaker 2: a way that's rarely told, which.
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  Speaker 6: Was a small car with a group of teenagers and
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  Speaker 6: that had collided.
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  Speaker 2: With a tree. Grant has worked as a parent medic
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  Speaker 2: for thirty years, the last ten with Devon Air Ambulance.
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  Speaker 2: There are some call outs that stick with him.
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  Speaker 6: I think that was just one of those jobs we're
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  Speaker 6: not expecting, I suppose what you're going to see on
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  Speaker 6: those days, and we got there recently quickly, and I
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  Speaker 6: think three of the these young people actually died in
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  Speaker 6: the scene, which was quite difficult, and it's trying to
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  Speaker 6: give the best care you can for everybody on scene,
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  Speaker 6: and they were quite severely injured, and it's always a
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  Speaker 6: shock to the system when you get to those jobs.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, it can be tricky. It can be tricky.
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  Speaker 2: This is the ripple effect we so often hear about,
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  Speaker 2: so many affected by deaths on our roads, beyond just
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  Speaker 2: immediate family. On the Major Trauma Award of Devon's largest hospital,
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  Speaker 2: Thereford in Plymouth, the beds are nearly always full. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: here has helped treat young victims of crashes, many left
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  Speaker 2: with life changing.
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  Speaker 4: Injuries off seeing a whole scale of it. Some patients
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  Speaker 4: are amazingly resilient and take it really well. Others it
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  Speaker 4: is absolutely life changing and they are hysterical. It's a
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  Speaker 4: full spectrum of sort of things we see here, and
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  Speaker 4: then we have to just kind of work off how
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  Speaker 4: they've reacted and what we need to do for them
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  Speaker 4: in that moment. This could be the first time that
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  Speaker 4: they're actually seeing their injuries in full light. It might
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  Speaker 4: be the first time that they're actually aware that they've
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  Speaker 4: had an amputation or that they're actually paralyzed. So having
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  Speaker 4: to manage that for us can be really hard.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think you feel it until you get like
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  Speaker 7: the lovely thank you cards at the end and you
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  Speaker 7: realize that the patients that you've looked after for a
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  Speaker 7: couple of weeks your name. It's only afterwards maybe that
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  Speaker 7: the impact hits you. I think when you're in any scenario,
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  Speaker 7: it's kind of the after effect, isn't it that you go,
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  Speaker 7: I can take a deep breath now that was really hard,
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  Speaker 7: that was really emotional.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the team's work here is focused on helping
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  Speaker 2: victims of road traffic collisions, and young people are disproportionately impacted.
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  Speaker 2: U Government data for twenty twenty four shows there were
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  Speaker 2: an estimated sixteen hundred deaths on Britain's roads last year,
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  Speaker 2: with over one hundred and twenty eight thousand casualties. More
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  Speaker 2: than a fifth of fatalities involved a young person behind
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  Speaker 2: the wheel. In fact, young mail car drivers aged seventeen
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  Speaker 2: to twenty four are four times more likely to be
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  Speaker 2: killed or seriously injured compared with all drivers aged over
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. Despite this, the government is refusing to follow
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  Speaker 2: other countries in bringing in graduated driving licenses GDLs. See
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  Speaker 2: learners gain freedoms in stages such as initial bands on
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  Speaker 2: driver at nice and with a car full of mates.
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  Speaker 2: The system has seen deaths fall in places like Canada
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  Speaker 2: and Australia.
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  Speaker 1: In my view, the evidence is overwhelming that they need
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  Speaker 1: to reconsider it. We can't tell them what to do.
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  Speaker 1: They need to come to their own conclusions. But we
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  Speaker 1: are building up now a case of evidence whereby ministers
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  Speaker 1: will have to we've got to look at this again.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to reconsider this.
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  Speaker 2: The government says it's looking at other measures to protect
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  Speaker 2: young drivers as part of a new strategy on road
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  Speaker 2: safety due to be published soon, but for those dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the fallout of row deaths, tougher rules would be welcome.
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  Speaker 3: I think GDL is part of that safe system. I
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  Speaker 3: believe in evidence in foreign practice, and for me, the
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  Speaker 3: evidence from Canada from other parts of the world is
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  Speaker 3: really strong. I believe that GEDL saves lives. I've got
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  Speaker 3: four children. One of them, in a couple of years
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  Speaker 3: will be driving. I, as a parent, will be making
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  Speaker 3: sure that a similar structure to GDL in place to
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  Speaker 3: try and keep her safe.
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  Speaker 6: The loss of any life is tragic and affects a
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  Speaker 6: lot of people and the clinicians as well. But I
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  Speaker 6: think when there's a young person that survives as well,
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  Speaker 6: and they've got to walk with that of the rist
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  Speaker 6: of their lives, and more than likely would be one
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  Speaker 6: of your friends.
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  Speaker 2: What's the toughest part of your job.
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  Speaker 7: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 5: What's the toughest part of my job? Interestingly, I don't
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  Speaker 5: think it's looking after the trauma patients, because I think
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  Speaker 5: for the trauma patients we're so focused and we're so resourced.
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  Speaker 5: But I definitely the toughest part is talking to the relatives.
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  Speaker 5: I get huge satisfaction from doing it well, but I
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  Speaker 5: can remember the face of nearly every relative that I've
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  Speaker 5: ever spoken to.
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  Speaker 2: Those relatives will join others in Westminster in a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks to launch a new campaign urging the government to
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  Speaker 2: go further. It is clear is that the number of
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  Speaker 2: young deaths on our roads has an impact that spreads
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  Speaker 2: far and wide down whited Sky News