HeyJaredRiley’s Road - From N332
A calm, thoughtful road safety podcast for older teens, young adults, and educators. Voiced by Riley Via-Silva, each episode blends practical guidance with behaviour, psychology, and real-world insight from the N332 Road Safety Project.
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How Can We Be Expected to Follow Driving Rules Nobody Ever Taught Us? (opens the original)
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Why do we expect young people to follow road rules they were never taught? Spain's driving schools (CNAE) want mandatory training for electric scooters after alarming new safety figures from the Fiscalía and the DGT. Riley cuts through the statistics to reveal the terrifying everyday experience of riding an unstable scooter alongside aggressive drivers in two-tonne metal boxes, and why practical education must replace easy blame.
Have you ever wondered why water feels so harmless, right up until the second it starts moving? (opens the original)
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Following the tragic loss of a motorist in Olivella whose car was swept away by a flooded riera , Riley looks past the technical talk to ask the real question: why do smart people still drive into water? From the psychology of panic to the life-saving rule of "pause and assess", this episode breaks down what actually happens when rising flood water pins your car doors shut, why your windows are your only real way out, and how to spot the Spanish R-100 road sign that tells you a route is complete
The Invisible Weight: Why 30 km/h Is Not a Joke (opens the original)
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Inside a modern car, thirty kilometres an hour feels like crawling, and fifty feels completely normal. But out on the tarmac, physics does not care about what feels comfortable. In this episode, Riley breaks down the raw mechanics of urban driving: why doubling your speed does not just double your impact, but squares the destructive kinetic energy packed into your vehicle. From the terrifying reality of reaction times to why a pedestrian hit at fifty has an eighty per cent chance of severe traum
Thirty for a Reason: Why I Am Not Speeding Through Town for Anyone (opens the original)
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We have all been there. You are running late, your mates in the back are telling you to put your foot down, and thirty kilometres an hour feels like crawling. Let them talk. When you hit someone at 50 km/h, the chance of that person dying or suffering permanent trauma is roughly eighty per cent. Drop that speed down to 30 km/h, and their survival rate shoots up to ninety per cent. Your friends are not the ones who have to live with the consequences of an impact. You are holding the wheel. Drop t
Why Lower Speed Limits Aren't About the Cameras (opens the original)
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Every time authorities drop a speed limit or put up a new section radar, the conversation immediately turns to fines, revenue traps, and ruined journeys. But what happens when you take the politics and the police vans out of the equation? In this episode, Riley unpacks the latest push from European transport safety bodies demanding stricter speed enforcement, and explains why the math behind kinetic energy actually matters. More importantly, she looks at where real control truly lives: not in th
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