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**Original called: COW – The film designed to stop people txting and driving** **SMS schreiben am Steuer kann tötlich enden!!!** It’s all about Cassie COWan — a nice girl from a nice Gwent valleys family — who kills four people on the road because she used her mobile and lost her concentration for a few seconds. Gwent police is proud to have helped Brynmawr filmmaker Peter Watkins- Hughes in the production, which stars local drama students Jenny Davies as Cassie, and Amy Ingram and Laura Quantick as her friends, Emm and Jules. . The film is a sequel to a previous documentary called ‘Lucky Luke’, made 14 years ago, which showed the devastating consequences of joy riding. It is hoped the film will become part of the core schools programme across Wales and ultimately the UK. Along with our colleagues in the other emergency services, we facilitated the film’s crash scenes — because we want to stop ALL drivers, but particularly young and new ones, from causing accidents. Over 300 teenagers from all over Wales were auditioned to take part in the film, nine police vehicles were involved and both the police and air ambulance helicopters featured. State of the art digital special effects were utilised to show the impact of what would happen inside the car during impact. Lyn Samuel, School Liaison Coordinator for Gwent Police said: “We worked closely with the production team including the University of Wales Newport, Tredegar Comprehensive School and local partners including the …