VIDEO: ‘At a fatal road accident all you will hear are screams and sirens’ Munster students told

A dramatic presentation on road safety designed to “shake up” young people clearly worked yesterday.

Crash survivor Gillian Treacy, with her son Sean. She lost her four-year-old son Ciaran when her car was struck by a drink driver.

Up to 800 transition year students from secondary schools in Limerick and North Cork gathered in a stunned silence as they came face to face with the horror of death on Irish roads.

After two hours when some were visibly upset, RobynO’Riordan, a 15-year-old student at The Salesian Secondary School in Limerick summed it up: “It was scary.”