Charlie Green of the The Next Mile road safety foundation

Former motorcyclist, from Tenterden, launches The Next Mile road safety foundation after losing two friends in crashes

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00:00So it all started in April 2024. I was involved in an accident with a group of my friends that

00:04actually cost one of their lives and then it was three months after that I lost a close friend of

00:10mine from school, Archie Robertson, in a sudden crash and that really set me over the edge,

00:15both being motorbike accidents and being a biker myself. It did almost make me go to war with

00:20myself about whether what I was doing was worth it and how I could make a difference and I did

00:27almost after seeing it all in the news all the time, every week different crashes, different

00:31tragedies, different fatalities, it made me think this has got to change. The main thing is just

00:36trying to stop it from happening to other people, doing talks in schools, events in schools, educating

00:42young people on the risks of riding a motorbike and driving a car, educating them on the fact that

00:48they're not invincible. I've been that age before, I know how you think, I know how they think, you

00:52know, you very much think it'll never happen to me and I'm sort of a, me and my friends are

00:57sort of the people to stand and tell them, no, this can happen to you, this has happened

01:00to us and just give them as many resources as we can to prevent that from happening to

01:05them really and just by doing that, I think that honours our friends massively. You know,

01:12we can never stop these things from happening completely but we're doing our bit.

01:16we're doing our bit.

01:21I'm going to wave in the comments.

01:22I sell it.

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01:34I sells it.

01:36But I sell it.

01:39I sell it.

01:41I sell it.