D Tuesday, October 13, 2009 METRO Models Nadia Forde and Georgia Salpa at the launch of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week aimed at warning of the dangers of identity fraud. A survey showed 51 per cent of Irish people are still not sure how fraudsters get access to personal information Picture: Fennells EYE SPY Schoolgirl lost fingers in horror art class accidentA SCHOOL was yesterday ordered to pay 19,000 (20,000) after a 16-year- old girl lost most of her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of Paris during a school art lesson. The teenager was attempting to make a sculpture of her own hands when the accident occurred temperatures of up to 60C can be generated in large quantities of plaster. The plaster set around her hands and neither staff nor paramedics could get it off during the lesson at Giles School, in Boston, England. Plastic surgeons did what they could but after 12 operations she was left with no fingers on one hand and just two on the other. The schools governing body admitted breaching health and safety regulations and failing to report the incident to the Health and Safety Executive. 20% would fail eye test ONE in five drivers would fail the driving licence eyesight test, new figures reveal. One of the largest ever eye-care surveys of 750 people between the ages of 16 and 80 found 20 per cent of drivers would fail the vision test, an increase from the one in eight drivers who failed the test in 2008, the Specsavers Focus on Driving campaign found. Catherina McGleenon of Specsavers said: If you think your eyesight is not good enough, you should get a full eye examination as... you could be putting yourself and others in danger. 1,000 fatal crashes in past decade caused by alcoholBy SArAh StAckDRINK-DRIvING may have caused more than 1,000 fatal road crashes over the past decade, it emerged yesterday. The research was revealed by experts from across Europe at a conference in Dublin Castle. It is believed driving under the influence contrib- utes to as many as 10,000 deaths on EU roads every year and more than 1,000 fatal collisions in Ireland between 1999 and 2008. The Road Safety Authority also said that motor- ists are six times more likely to have a collision when at the drink driving limit. Transport Minister Noel Dempsey said behind every statistic is a life lost, a grieving family and a shattered community. The overwhelming body of scientific evidence could not be any clearer, said Mr Dempsey, open- ing the lecture that marked the first day of Irish road safety week. Any amount of alcohol impairs driv- ing and increases the risk of being in a collision. Thankfully, the majority of people now believe drinking and driving is simply not acceptable. The RSA said drink driving is a male problem and could be the cause of one in three fatal collisions. The Governments Road Safety Strategy hopes to reduce deaths and injuries on Irish roads by 30 per cent, saving 400 lives by the end of 2012. Gay Byrne, RSA chairman, said that, as a society, we must finally lay to rest any doubts that drink- driving and its consequences are unintentional: Drink-driving happens by choice. This is one of the hardest things for victims and their families to come to terms with that it could have been prevented if only someone had made the right decision. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html