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The Crash RTE 2

  • 19-12-2014 10:55am
    #1
    jezzer
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    Anyone see The Crash on RTE2 last night? second part tonight at 9pm. Very gripping and harrowing story based on a real life event. If I was a secondary school teacher I would be showing this to my classes, it shows the sheer devastation left behind after a fatal car crash, the ones killed, the families left to pick up the pieces, the survivors and how they try and cope with it, the guilt felt by the driver, ironic that it was shown on the same day the driver in the 2010 fatal donegal smash got sentenced. Nobody comes out of a crash unscathed, the devastation is terrible. Accidents unfortunately can and do happen in life but i think by showing young people this programme, it might make them realise the need to be so careful on the roads.


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  • #2
    Beechfiled
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    I saw it when it was on BBC3, very moving. I agree it should be shown in schools.


  • #3
    Skid X
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    I hadn't seen it before last night, it was really powerful. Great idea about showing it in schools, it has to be worth a try.

    Part 1 is on the RTE Player (and Youtube) for anyone who missed it.


  • #4
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    Yes and part 2 tonight, I just thought it captured very well the contrast between the delight and excitement and careless attitude of teenagers moving on in their lives to the destruction of their whole world because of one stupid move on the part of the driver. Not only does a crash impact the lives of the people in a car, the ones who are killed, it impacts the survivors, their mothers, their fathers, their brothers and sisters, their friends. Imagine being that driver who survives and is responsible for the death of their friends, imagine looking their mother in the eye and your the one who killed their son or daughter....the programme is so graphic that i think it would really hit home for anyone watching it what happens when you act dangerously in a car, it might just come into their head the next time they think about showing off in a car....the programme is not condescending or patronising but is a story about a group of teenagers who are destroyed by a car crash, young people would be able to resonate with this i think.


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