Week 9 Session: After the collision
A desk-based tabletop exercise working through three roadside scenarios — no animal contact, no real roadside activity.
19 April 2027
Before the session#
Read the three scene cards below, and the contact-resource table in this week’s lecture.
The three scene cards#
Scene A. The driver has pulled over safely, hazard lights on. When asked what they saw, they say: “there was a kangaroo, hurt, near some trees on the highway somewhere.” No road name, no direction, no distance.
Scene B. The animal is still near the road edge, clearly distressed. The driver is considering walking closer to get a photo to help identify the species before calling anyone.
Scene C. The animal has moved out of view into roadside bush. Debris from the vehicle is still on the road, and visibility for other traffic approaching the bend is poor.
In the session — “The Roadside Response Tabletop”#
This is explicitly a desk exercise: no real roadside activity, no animal contact of any kind, at any point.
| Step | Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 min | Ground rules: this is a tabletop exercise, not a field drill. |
| 2 | 10 min | Read Scene A. Decide: what’s safe to do, who to call, and what information to give. |
| 3 | 10 min | Read Scene B. Same three decisions — pay attention to what changes. |
| 4 | 10 min | Read Scene C. Same three decisions again. |
| 5 | 10 min | Compare answers across groups; debrief on what changed between scenes and why. |
| 6 | 5 min | Produce the No-Second-Rescue Checklist (see below). |
No-Second-Rescue Checklist (formative)#
A short checklist, in your own words, of what to confirm before doing anything else at a strike scene, and what never to attempt without training. This is a formative output for this week’s activity. It is genuinely useful background if you’re proposing a driver-facing intervention in the final project, but it is not a required reference there — the final project’s own requirements don’t list it.
Afterwards#
Keep the checklist as optional background reading. If your final-project intervention touches driver behaviour immediately after a strike, this week’s material is a reasonable thing to cite — but citing it is your choice, not a requirement.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you can list what an untrained bystander should and shouldn't attempt at a strike scene, and why the boundary sits where it does
- you can state what information a driver should give when contacting a rescue service, and to whom
Teaching team
- Marisol Quaye — convenor