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Teach future drivers and pedestrians present the basic rules of road safety education is the goal of the Caravan
Mapfre Foundation that has brought Cartagena.
The Councillor for Citizen Security, Javier Herrero, and Director of MAPFRE in Cartagena, María José Garrido, accompanied by the Director General of Security, Carlos Nieto, and the Local Police Chief, Manuel Asensio, presented this morning the campaign will installed at the Municipal Stadium parking Cartagonova until Friday March 11 from 9am "00-19" 00 hours and Friday until 14:00 hours.
The Caravan Road Safety Education is aimed at schoolchildren between 9 and 12, with the main objective to promote responsible attitudes and civic organizations to help reduce road accidents.
It is expected that about 1,000 children attend these days to learn the main signs and traffic regulations, in groups of 30 children every hour.
Mapfre director in Cartagena, Maria José Garrido, explained that the caravan is open to the public in general, but mainly have been agreed activities with different schools in the municipality and with associations such as Down syndrome children will participate this afternoon in the circuit.
According to the Institute of Road Safety Mapfre in 2009 about 60 children were killed in a traffic accident.
To avoid this, Garrido has insisted that children should not be victims of accidents and safety but actors must convey to the whole family to acquire knowledge, starting with the simplest remind mom and dad to be put on the belt.
The Councillor for Citizen Security, Javier Herrero, Cartagena further recalled that about 5,000 minors are engaged in a lifelong learning at the Education Park Road which is on the street to Angel Bruna throughout the year.
La Caravana Mapfre includes a karting track and several classrooms where instructors specialized training in road safety education to children explain the rules and basic concepts of movement.
Cartagena joins to other cities in Spain that the Foundation Mapfre travel along this year teaching road safety to more than 20,000 students in Spain.
This Caravan traveling and was present last year in other cities of the region as Lorca and Murcia.
With this initiative, many students learn responsible attitudes in a playful and fun, both inside and outside the classroom.
But, as explained by Maria José Garrido, the Institute of Road Safety Awareness campaigns for adult drivers in order to avoid bad driving habits and reduce accident rates.
Fundació "N MAPFRE COMMITMENT TO PREVENTION N
The Institute of Road Safety Foundation "N MAPFRE's main objective is to prevent and reduce the high traffic accident rates through different activities. The Institute believes that all agencies, both public and private, should play a leading role in teaching the subject. One of its main goals is to promote road safety education through courses, research, information campaigns and free distribution of educational materials. In this line of action, the Institute collaborates with local authorities, schools and traffic parks, among others, to promote social awareness activities to help prevent traffic accidents.
ASK FOR PICTURES AND ABOUT THIS AND OTHER ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION "N MAPFRE, you can contact Nuria del Olmo, the Communications Department of MAPFRE.
Phone: 91 581 22 606 16 53 78 89.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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