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  • Winners Of The Competition On Traffic Safety In Armenia Announced

    WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION ON TRAFFIC SAFETY IN ARMENIA ANNOUNCED

    armradio.am
    17.05.2011 18:35

    In an event today concluding the Road Safety Week in Armenia a winning
    team of six schoolchildren from 33 school was awarded prizes for
    their knowledge of traffic rules.

    The Road Safety Week in Armenia was launched on 11 May by the OSCE
    Office in Yerevan, United Nations Department for Public Information
    (UNDPI) and the Armenian National Road Safety Council (NRSC). Its
    goal was to raise awareness of road safety rules among drivers and
    pedestrians, with a special focus on schoolchildren in the framework
    of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.

    "Every year around 1,300,000 people in the world are killed in
    road accidents, every 3 minutes a child dies," said Carel Hofstra,
    Deputy Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. "Activities to promote
    safety and teach children about traffic safety do save lives and make
    a difference."

    "We support efforts of Armenian authorities and law enforcement
    aimed at making the roads safer, however these efforts will be fully
    successful if each of us - pedestrians, drivers and passengers, -
    respect the traffic rules and each other on the road. We can help
    save millions of lives. This is the goal of the UN Decade of Action
    for Road Safety," said Maria Dotsenko, UNDPI Representative in Armenia.

    Forty eight schoolchildren from 7 schools of Yerevan participated in an
    interactive game "What?Where?When?" organized today for the first time
    in Armenia on the topic of traffic rules. All participants received
    certificates and the winning team of six was awarded the cups with
    a yellow emblem symbolizing the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
    2011-2020. The Armenian Ministry of Health/World Health Organization
    also contributed to the prizes.

    Poghos Shahinyan, the Head of the Secretariat of the Armenian
    NRSC, said: "Enforcing the use of seat belts in 2009, introduction
    of compulsory motor insurance in 2011 are some of the activities
    undertaken by the Armenian Government under the 2009 national strategy
    on improving road safety situation. In the course of last two years
    pilot classes were introduced in 50 Armenian schools and together with
    the Ministry of Education and Science we are developing a methodology
    on inclusion of road safety in the school curriculum."

    During the Road Safety Week in Armenia, schoolchildren together
    with traffic police officers advised pedestrians on crossing streets
    according to the traffic rules, distributed flyers and promotional
    gifts, and helped re-paint a pedestrian crossing area in Yerevan.

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