A month-campaign for children safety to be held in Tatarstan

A month-campaign for children safety will be held in Tatarstan on August,20 – September,20. Yearly actions will take place in all Tatarstan educational institutions. Such information was given at a briefing in RT Cabinet by Deputy Head of GU MCHS of Russia on RT Andrei Orlov.

The briefing was traditionally held in format of videoconference with all municipal regions of republic.

According to Andrei Orlov, main purpose of the campaign is recovery of skills for safe activities on roads and transport, adequate actions in dangerous and emergency situations.

See more about events in press release here - http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pressa/news-release.htm/press-release/368504.htm

Head of Executive office of GIBDD on RT Rifkat Minnikhanov informed that Tatarstan will take part in II stage of All-Russia preventive action “Attention! - Children!” that is to be held on August 15 – September, 11, 2011. He reminded that 336 road accidents with children have been registered for 7 months in 2011, 11 children were lost and 350 were injured. “We consider the problem connected with child pedestrians to be very urgent”, - Rifkat Minnikhanov said. By his words, parents are guilty of children deaths on roads to a large extent. From the beginning of 2011 327 parents whose children broke the traffic rules were fined.

Rifkat Minnikhanov informed as well that first formers will receive light-reflecting bracelets which will help drivers see children on the roads particularly in darkness. According to foreign research these bracelets reduce accident rate by 65 % - a child is seen from the distance of 100 m.

RT Minister of education and science Albert Gilmutdinov and Deputy Minister of health care Rufina Golubeva also spoke at the briefing.