Video games help crash victims overcome fears

DOCTORS at an Irish hospital are using video games to help road accident victims overcome their driving fears, it has emerged.

Thousands of people are injured on the roads each year and up to 15% can develop what is known as ‘accident phobia’.

But now trauma psychiatrists at St Stephen’s Hospital in Cork are using popular video games such as London Racer and Midtown Madness to help them get back behind the wheel again.