Students across Dorset are set to experience a road safety presentation that pulls no punches.

Organised by Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service (DWFRS), the Safe Drive Stay Alive programme is aimed at Year 11 pupils and above.

"The presentation is hard-hitting and upsetting," said DWFRS road safety manager Ian Hopkins. "But we make no apology for that."

It uses personal testimony and video footage to hammer the safety message home, and it is targeted at students who could soon be learning to drive, and those who may already be driving.

Bereaved parents, firefighters, paramedics, police officers, and people who have been directly involved in horrific road accidents will recount their stories.

Mr Hopkins explained: "The speakers are real people who have experienced the horror of road traffic collisions, whether as a member of the emergency services, as a victim or as a parent who has lost a child.

"It is this truthfulness that makes it so successful.

"We know that the young people who see this roadshow are affected, and we have seen the number of young people killed or seriously injured on our roads decrease since the programme started.

"We really do make a difference."

Between September 28 and the end of January the presentation will be seen by students of schools and colleges across the county, including Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester, Sir John Colfox Academy in Bridport and The Purbeck School in Wareham.

Most of the presentations will take place on campus at the individual schools, but there will be an additional roadshow for local students at Weymouth Pavilion.

A parallel programme will be held at schools and colleges in Wiltshire over the same period.

More dates are being added to the current Dorset programme.

A DWFRS spokesman said: "If you would like to book the roadshow for your school email Phil Villain via phil.villain@dwfire.org.uk or call him on 07500 815924."