Students faced with dummy run on consequences of a serious accident

By Janice Harris
Updated August 9 2014 - 8:22am, first published 3:30am
TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: Students Sam McKinley, Lachlan Lingley, Tahlia Brown, Paige Wallace, Jess Beasley and Jess Bishenden watch Orange hospital trauma clinical nurse consultant Vicky Conyers use the scenario of a young student with life threatening spinal injuries as part of an education program to help young people avoid risk taking behaviour. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0808hospital21
TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: Students Sam McKinley, Lachlan Lingley, Tahlia Brown, Paige Wallace, Jess Beasley and Jess Bishenden watch Orange hospital trauma clinical nurse consultant Vicky Conyers use the scenario of a young student with life threatening spinal injuries as part of an education program to help young people avoid risk taking behaviour. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0808hospital21

IT was a confronting experience but a valuable life lesson for students from James Sheahan,  Blayney and Orange high schools when they saw firsthand what it’s like to be critically injured in an accident .

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