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Getting started is always the most difficult step! Here are a few thoughts to help you on your way:

A 'single issue' film
You may decide to focus on one of the main road safety issues for young drivers - driving too fast, not wearing a seatbelt, using a mobile phone while driving, or drink and/or drug driving.

If you do decide on this approach we suggest you pick one of these topics - perhaps the one that you think is the biggest problem among your peer group.

Distraction
You may decide to focus on the dangers of distraction. There is certainly evidence that young drivers think that distraction - by friends in the car, changing a CD and/or loud music, looking at what's going on around the car instead of the road ahead - is a real danger for them.

Peer pressure
You may decide to focus on the issue of peer pressure, mates in the car encouraging the driver to take risks, drive too fast or race other drivers. You could approach this by encouraging the driver not to respond to this pressure, or encouraging passengers not to apply peer pressure.

Passengers
Another angle is to encourage passengers to speak up for themselves if they feel in danger because someone is driving in a dangerous manner.

Inexperience/Over-confidence
This is another approach you could take - to remind newly qualified drivers that inexperience and over-confidence can be a lethal combination.

We hope this is useful as a starting point. Please don't feel you have to focus on one of the above. The way you approach the film is entirely up to you, but we hope this may help stimulate your thought processes.

Good luck!!

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