An afternoon of injury, death and grief designed to make an impression
For one week a year up to 2500 students aged 15 and 16 come to this stadium for those few hours. There’s a lot to see. Stands and booths with inventive tasks and narratives to prompt the teens to think. It seems to work. Only a few seem blithely nonplussed. Glenn Taylor/Stuff Seth Adams, who suffered serious brain injuries in a crash in 2012, speaking to a group of students attending Hawke's Bay's annual Youth Road Safety Expo. The cops, paramedics and firefighters share a laugh, indulge in a bit of teasing, but there's a palpable earnestness in their disposition. You get the sense they w...