Not a pretty sight
Timid motorists should perhaps avoid the scene of a mock traffic accident on Marine Parade this evening. The central ambulance division of the St John Ambulance Brigade will stage a full-scale collision between a busload of intoxicated rugby players and a motor-cycle outside Thomson Park to test the capabilities of two brigade nursing divisions. The divisional supervisor. Mr B. L. Seymour, said that his division would be trying for realism with the injured draped over the scene, displaying the results of a $3OO imitation wound kit. including fake blood. There would also be broken beer bottles and even a rugby ball About '4O nurses and • patients" will be involved in the half-hour exercise, due to start at 8 p.m. Ministry of Transport officers will be on hand to keep traffic moving past the scene.
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Press, 7 September 1981, Page 13
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