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The Councillor for Education, University Relations and Heritage, Rafael Gomez Carrasco, attended the presentation of the Caravan Road Safety Education, a free educational activities to teach more than 1,000 students between 8 and 12 years old, behaviors and attitudes responsible as future drivers and pedestrians current.
The initiative MAPFRE Foundation, in collaboration with the city of Murcia and Albacete and has been attended by José Manuel García, director of Office of MAPFRE, has consisted of training on key issues related to the safety of school as what child restraints should be used to prevent death or serious injury.
It has also shown the importance of helmet use, which according to studies by the Foundation, reduces the risk of death in a crash by up to 40 percent and different ways of behaving responsibly and safely as pedestrians, passengers and drivers bicycle.
Children also have learned to cross properly by a crosswalk because they must remind their parents that when they drive can not speak for the mobile phone, manipulate the GPS or smoking behaviors certainly distract the driver and may cause an accident mortal.
The Caravan Road Education also allows implement everything learned in child trafficking circuit located on the esplanade of Paseo del Teniente Flomesta until April 15, during school hours.
In this place, which will also be open to families in the evenings, participants can conduct practices, with the cooperation of the local police, in electric karts to learn to respect traffic signs and safety distance.
The Caravan Road Safety Education, which this year will tour 23 other Spanish and Portuguese cities, is part of the program "Educate Your World," which in road safety benefited more than one million children in 23 countries in 2015.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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