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Keep Your Wheels On

Join Greg Rust and myDRIVESCHOOL's Lisa Skaife alongside a team of experts as they hear for the first time the stories of real crash survivors. With guests like comedian Shane Jacobson, former Supercars racer Greg Murphy, and Policing Assistant Commissioner Glenn Weir, Keep Your Wheels On explores the lessons that can be taken from these stories to help you to be a safer and more aware driver.

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Blind drunk with 5 passengers - The horror crash that turned Zac’s life around

Before going to jail Zac crashed every car that he had ever owned, but it was a crash with 5 passengers while he was blind drunk and heading to out to buy more alcohol that finally led to him turning his life around. In an emotional episode, Rusty and Lisa are joined by Glenn Weir, Assistant Commissioner of the Road Policing Command with Victoria Police who shares the frightening fact that Zac’s story of impaired driving is one that is all too common. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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37 min•

26 Aug

The compounding decisions that left Eli with an acquired brain injury

In high school Eli was a promising sportsman with a flair for acting. Today he reminisces how much he misses sport and being able to exert himself after a car crash left him with an acquired brain injury. Speaker, writer, and podcaster Scott B Harris joins Rusty and Lisa on this episode having also suffered an acquired brain injury in a motocross crash, to unpack why making good decisions is so important, how delicate the brain is, and how split second decisions can have lifelong ramifications.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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19 Aug

How Sam failed to keep his wheels on

There had to be an episode of the series where this happened, right? Sam shares how a poorly attached wheel quite literally came off the car he was driving at 100kph. To unpack why you shouldn’t ignore a ‘grinding sound’, actor, director, writer, and comedian Shane Jacobson joins Rusty and Lisa to talk all things vehicle maintenance. Why a grumpy mechanic could be a good mechanic, to why you shouldn’t ‘poop in the kitchen’, it all gets covered in this episode of Keep Your Wheels On.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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42 min•

12 Aug

The ‘normal day’ that left Dinesh in a wheelchair for life

Dinesh wasn’t driving recklessly when his crash happened and recalls being under the speed limit when his car hit a patch of something slippery in the wet weather. In this episode he recalls the terrifying moment of not being able to feel his legs and the realisation that he was paralysed. Russell White, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Road Safety Foundation joins Rusty and Lisa to talk aquaplaning, and why the weather doesn’t need to be extreme to change how a vehicle operates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5 Aug

Behind the bonnet - What truck drivers wish you knew

With more than a million registered heavy vehicle units in Australia every road user will likely come across some type of truck no matter where they are driving, but with over 80% of crashes involving trucks not the fault of the truck driver, car drivers still have a lot to learn about sharing the road with larger vehicles. In this episode, truck driver Craig shares his experiences behind the wheel, and Casuarina Smith, or @truckingwithcj as her more than 100k fans on her socials know her, joins Rusty and Lisa to share why educating drivers on the importance of respecting larger vehicles is so close to her heart.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29 Jul

‘I knew that was how I was going to die’ - Angela’s traumatic crash

Armed with a large bank loan Angela purchased her dream car. But when a traumatic crash resulted in her writing that car off Angela found herself in $70,000 debt after deciding to drive uninsured. Tim Bennett – Insurance Expert and Finder’s lead publisher for insurance joins Rusty and Lisa to hear Angela’s story, discuss the insurance options available to young drivers, and how simple decisions can have longstanding consequences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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