CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY
To confront the general lack of traffic knowledge and poor road user attitude through imbuing in the children, basic traffic knowledge and the right road user attitude and behaviour, AARSI, in partnership with FRSC, established Road Safety Clubs on 20 schools in Lagos. Here children receive lessons on general road safety, weekly.
With a view to extending the known road safety measures to children, AARSI joined FRSC, Safety Beyond Borders, TOCSS Foundation, Association for Better Environment and Life Savers Initiative, to launch a Child Passenger Safety Campaign. The campaign aims at improving the manner in which children are transported in the vehicles, highlighting the use of Seat Belts, Car Seats, Boaster Seat and Child Helmets.
In response to May 11, 2011 multiple crash along Lekki-Epe road in Lagos State, involving 7 vehicles and 19 persons, in which 4 School children in a school bus were killed, AARSI re-launched Child Passenger Safety campaign in Lagos and Abuja.
The report on the may 11crash and the Lagos launch of child safety
The Lagos launch has 3 elements:
Empowering schools with campaign materials to enable them take ownership of the campaign of their various domains
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- Empowering schools with campaign materials to enable them take ownership of the campaign of their various domains
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- Road shows featuring distribution of fliers to Parents, Guardians, Drivers on school run.
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- Training School Bus Drivers on safe ways of transporting children to and fro schools. Report on school bus drivers training
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- Sector Comdr FRSC, Mr. Jonas Agwu, Lecturing the School bus drivers
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- At the Abuja launch in November, 2011, AARSI established Road Safety Clubs in 12 schools where school children receive lessons on road safety, weekly. Report on Abuja child safety launch
