The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, at an event held this morning at the Center for Infant and Primary Education (CEIP) Eduardo Pondal de Ponteceso, held a meeting with students and teachers with the aim of promoting road education and safety in public school transport. The deputy delegate was accompanied by Jeanne Picard, delegate in Galicia of Stop Accidents, and by the director of the education area of the Government Delegation, Lois Carballido.
The subdelegate indicated that this activity, which will also be held within the framework of the Master Plan for coexistence and improvement of safety in schools and their environments, seeks to raise awareness among young people about the importance of following traffic rules and behaving safely both as pedestrians and as users of public transport.
During the meeting, the students of the center read the diptych “Protocol of safe measures to travel to the stop of the school bus and during the trip to school” published by the organization of victims of traffic accidents, Stop Accidents, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). This publication, of which all students received a copy, contains a “protocol for students”, a “protocol for family members and/or people in charge of school transport” and a “protocol for companions”.
María Rivas and Jeanne Picard stressed and recalled that the bus is one of the safest means of transport, however, 90% of accidents related to school transport occur on the rise or descent of the bus, so they urged the boys and girls to tighten their vigilance and avoid distractions. Therefore, regardless of the establishment of preventive protocols, their dissemination and publicity, it is necessary to carry out face-to-face awareness actions in the educational environment to promote the culture of road safety.
"Road education is essential to ensure the safety of our children on public roads. Through these programs, we are not only teaching traffic rules, but also inculcating values of responsibility and respect that will carry with them a lifetime," said Rivas.
Even the CEIP of Ponteceso also approached an endowment of the Civil Traffic Guard of A Coruña to complement the activity with a small media exhibition, taking advantage to explain to the students their daily task in the surveillance and protection of traffic on the roads of the province.
With this initiative, the Subdelegation of the Government in A Coruña reaffirms its commitment to road safety and the protection of the newest, promoting a culture of safe and sustainable mobility.