The Last Night I Saw My Son: Harvey’s Story

I think that's why probably...

That kind of feeling either completely takes you down and destroys you or you use it.

And I think that's the option you've chosen, isn't it? You are using that as a force to pull you forward.

Yeah.

I mean, for the first six weeks, I couldn't get out of bed.

I couldn't eat.

It was just one blur.

I just don't remember much of it at all.

And then it was actually through a conversation with my old dinner lady, weirdly, So she she was I was explaining the circumstances in terms of how I wouldn't have allowed Harvey to go for a second if I'd have known the full details.

And that's when she told me about her nephew lived in Australia.

And up till this point, I'd never heard of a graduated license.

I mean, people have been campaigning about it for years.

But, you know, I think part of you as well, if you you don't feel you're affected by it, I suppose you just zone into what.

No, I've never heard of it until I was reading about

this.

And before we go into that, I'm just going to I'm just going to read what the coroner said about what happened to the boys, if that's all right.

You don't mind me saying this? So Hugo Morris, who was the driver, was 18 at the time of his death.

On the 19th of November, he was driving a motor vehicle carrying three passengers who were 17, that's Wilfred, 16, that was Jevon, 17, your Harvey.

Having been on a camping trip, the motor vehicle in question veered into a near-side grass verge and entered into a water-filled draining ditch which led to the deaths of all four young men.

So the existing signage would not have been given them adequate warning of the upcoming bend and the motor vehicle with the four young men was not found until the 21st of November.

a road traffic collision was recorded with deaths for all four young men resulting from drowning.

And that's quite confusing that bit and we'll come back to that because there's a secondary campaign here.

So just keep that in mind.

So this is when you hear about a graduated license and literally I was like, what does that mean? And then I read it and I went, oh my God, yeah, absolutely.

That is a no brainer.