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Acknowledgements

Sources: “Judy” and her family; PC Abrahams; PC Caten; Essex County Council Highways Department; Essex Police; Sister Hunt; “Duncan” and The West Essex Gazette.

All the sources for kind permission to use their words.

The performers in the Epping Youth Theatre productions Quenchers (1986) and Too Much Punch for Judy (1987): Kim Baker; Fay Davies; Jo Dumelow; Paul Elliott; Nick Fradd; Ryan Gilbey; George Griffiths; Emma Jefferson; Garth Jennings; Debbie Mitchell; Debbie Pollard; Jo Redman; John Rowley; Barrie Sapsford; Beth Spendlow; Emma Turner; Anna Wallbank and John Ward.

Mick and Sylvia Baker for their initial inspiration and their tremendous support throughout the EYT performances.

CADD (Campaign Against Drinking and Driving) for their tremendous campaign.

Derek Rutherford, Institute of Alcohol Studies.

Rosie Walsh & David Lyndsay (then of Essex County Council Highways Department) for their support.

Frank Nunneley (then of Hertfordshire County Council – Road Safety) and all the Road Safety Officers in England, Scotland and Wales who have offered their support to the play’s continued success.

Ken Boyden for taking the play to New Zealand for such successful tours.

Mat Kane, Antony Audenshaw and Yvonne Allen, and the Ape Theatre Company for their stunning performances since 1988 in England, Cyprus, Germany, Jersey.

To Mat, Steve, Fay, and Tor (Ape Theatre Company) for inspiring the opening and closing scenes.

Alistair Black, Hampshire County Council Drama Inspector, for the idea to revisit the beginning of the play at the end… nice one!

Sophie Gorell Barnes and all at MBA Literary Agency for continued belief and support.

Dbda for publishing this play when other publishers had turned it down so often!

Thanks to George Spender and those in the Salamander Street team for their efforts to extend the reach of my plays.

Rachel Wheeller and family.