A bicycle accident has occurred at a notorious blackspot in Millford. Police officers on the scene interview a variety of eye witnesses. Pupils adopt roles of accident investigators receiving these wide and varied reports. Working together they must draw their own conclusions and present their findings and recommendations to the Chief of Police.

Issues of road safety, the Highway Code and road layout will be debated with genuine urgency and concern.

Pre-activity checklist

In preparation for the activity Actis suggest the following steps:

• Visit Organising Smash and review the whole of the Smash website.
  (The teacher username and password will allow entry to the passworded areas.)
• Print off the teacher guidance material and child worksheets
• Run through the scenario.
  1. Use the teacher username and password to log on to the Projects admin area
     
  2. Place the message stream activity into the 'Waiting' position.
     
  3. Go to the Smash briefing page, click the log on button and enter the child username and password.
• Plan how to run the scenario and select follow-up activities.
• Place the scenario back into the 'Waiting' position at Projects admin area ready for use on the day.

In addition, it is possible to pause and resume the message stream in the event of an emergency. Log on to the Projects admin area with the teacher password and click the pause button. To resume, log on again and click on the resume icon.