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Fit to Drive (F2D) Program

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Outline for a Fit to Drive Year 11 Workshop:
  • Introduction
  • Workshop 1 facilitated activities: Group Rules, Tennis balls, Choose your activity, Values Clarification
  • Victoria Police Road Safety Presentation
  • Recess
  • CFA Presentation
  • Workshop 2 facilitated activities: Rating the Risks, Scenarios
  • Closing
Students reading handouts
Students reading the Car Crash Case Study handout in small groups
Students listening to a presentation
Choices, Consequences and Causes Presentation

What is the Fit to Drive (F2D) program?

F2D is a community road safety education program that aims to reduce the disproportionate representation of young people in road crashes. The program is run by a State-wide committee that is supported by the TAC, Vic Roads and Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. The program offers local communities the opportunity to participate in a program for young people that focuses on personal safety, responsibility and strategies to make them safer drivers and passengers.

The Fit to Drive program sits across Years 10, 11 & 12. CFA is involved with the Year 11 Fit to Drive Workshop.

CFA is committed where there is Area support to deliver the approved Fit to Drive packages.

What is the Year 11 Workshop?

The Year 11 half day Fit to Drive workshop involves small group activities and group presentations using trained facilitators.  Students hear from the Victoria Police Road Safety and Information Awareness Unit and MFB or CFA presenters. The strength of the workshop is that it puts the students in charge of their learning, utilising strategies and approaches to clarifying values, challenging attitudes and beliefs. It also assists development of personal and interpersonal, problem solving, and decision making skills.

The year 11 workshop is based on the peer education model of adolescent learning for risk taking behaviour. The model, which originates from the health sector, is the same one that is used in teaching about drug education. As driving is a risk taking behaviour the model can also be applied to the Fit to Drive Year 11 workshop.

Trained CFA presenters deliver the session which can vary in time from 40mins-90mins depending on class sizes and time allowed.

What is CFA's Involment?

CFA’s objective is to support program delivery of the year 11 workshop wherever possible. The program is currently being rolled out through municipalities and is run across six CFA Regions. The program is planned to run state wide in all secondary schools in the future.

The program consists of two approved packages for delivery of the CFA component of Fit to Drive:

  1. The Car Crash Case Study - Mona Vale Road
  2. The Choices, Consequences and Causes Presentation (locally owned and run in the Dandenong area

Mona Vale Road Case Study: An image of a crashed vehicleCar Crash Road Case Study

Conducted over 40 minutes, this case study delivers an introduction followed by facilitated small and large group discussion with the students. Students examine and discuss a case study of an actual road crash involving young people.

While the focus is on peer pressure, choices, responsibility and resulting consequences around the case study, the activity also raises issues around the circumstances of the crash. This includes issues such as travelling without a seatbelt, travelling in the boot of an overloaded vehicle and driving an unfamiliar vehicle.

The case study targets key messages that are relevant to young people at this stage of their lives. It enables students to identify the key issues surrounding the case study challenging their attitudes and behaviours and helping them to develop strategies to keep themselves safer on the roads.

CFA Firefighters demonstrating a car cutChoices, Consequences and Causes Presentation

Conducted over 45 minutes, the presentation takes Year 11 students on a journey about choices, consequences and causes around road crashes and collisions. The Car Cut DVD (on occasions, an actual car cut is demonstrated) highlights to students the consequences associated with a car crash and the complexities of extracting trapped occupants.

The presentation that follows explains the injuries sustained from the various types of car crashes. The presentation explores the causes of crashes for example, distractions from the use of mobile phones or inexperience. The role of choices and decisions are highlighted in relation to driving. A video looks at a crash that occurred in Queensland and the resulting life long injuries a survivor has endured. An interactive activity about the impacts of a crash highlights the ripple effect.

Program Management

The Fit to Drive Program will be coordinated at a State-wide level through the Community Safety Directorate.

For further information about Fit to Drive, contact the Project Officer on (03) 9262 8454.

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