Road Safety Speakers
Our Road Safety Speakers tell personal stories about wrong choices made when driving.
Choices like speeding, having a few beers or not wearing a seatbelt. Choices that may have confined them to a wheelchair for life. Killed a sister, a best friend, a son. Saddled them with remorse or sadness.
They have first-hand knowledge and share their stories with compassion and humour. They connect to their audience and challenge young people to think about their choices when driving.
Road Safety Speaker profiles
Twelve Road Safety Speakers, including speakers from outside B.C., are available to speak to your school or group.
Click their photos to view their profiles below and contact directly to book.
"I'm out there to help young people stay alive and make good choices in their lives." |
"Injuries are not just physical in nature. There can be emotional injuries that can be far more devastating." |
"I hope the message that young people take away is... that the thought of losing people that they love is motivating enough that they put a plan into action to get home safely." |
"Kids nowadays seem to think that their actions aren't going to impact anyone else but themselves... [but] their family and friends and everyone else in their community are hugely impacted by anything tragic that happens to them." |
"I don't use fear tactics or graphic photographs to present the issue. I use humour and stories to drive home the sober message that drinking and driving is a deadly combination." |
"Ask yourselves who is running your life... then make sure it's you!" |
"I want students in any country that will listen, in any school that will listen... to hear the message through my story, not because of my story, that their choices really do matter." |
"When we make a bad choice, we can cause injuries that can impact the lives of many others besides ourselves." |
"You think it would be easy to stick your neck out for your friends...but his friends did nothing the day that they watched my buddy get into a vehicle with a drunk driver and that changed all of our lives forever." |
"Young people take away from my presentation that peer pressure is the largest part of the equation. They can cave to peer pressure, or take a stand." |
"If you make the wrong decision and drink and drive... you don't just hurt yourself, you hurt your family and everyone in your community." |
"My story, my words... can help youth make the right choice." |
Testimonials
Student
You aren’t just another guy getting up in front of us telling us “drinking and driving is bad, don’t do it”. You go way beyond that. You give us images to remember, reasons why drinking and driving is something to avoid, and examples of how the devastation can spread throughout everyone you love just from a simple mistake you or one of your friends has made. Your story is not only believable, but moving.
Parent
You quite possibly could have saved my son's life yesterday. Who knows what fate would have for his future but after hearing your talk yesterday at his school, his whole attitude towards driving and speed has changed. Anybody can stand up and talk - but you made him listen and think. Thank you.
School
We are deeply grateful to ICBC for supporting our ability to host a Road Safety Speaker. We proudly use many ICBC resources and are doing what we can to integrate them into all senior school grades and into different teachable areas.