So far, two kindergartens have been equipped with safety vests. The children are now a bit safer if they move in the public traffic area. The county of Oldenburg has taken care of that: He dressed all 42 girls and boys in safety vests. The neon yellow vests with reflective materials financed out of the pot for traffic regulations offenses (fines), thus ultimately by traffic offenders.
Upon request, you can also equip other daycare centers in the district of Oldenburg with safety vests, offered Siegfried Blum, head of the Road Traffic Office in the county house. The first corresponding request had its authority recently received from the kindergarten. As desired, the Waldburg lettering was also printed on the garments.
The Kita has now received the second delivery, “because there is no logo yet, these vests remained unprinted. Both deliveries would have struck together with about 500 Euros to book,” said the head of the authorities.
That the money is well spent, is synonymous for mayor Hedwig Wise out of the question. Especially in the dark season, it is important to be seen.
Siegfried Bloom hopes that the investment will send a message to the parents, an incentive to wear jackets with reflective fabrics or safety vests. “What good does it do to me when the gravestone says,” He was well dressed, but you could not see him, “Bloom pointed out.
Together with his colleague Marion, the head of the department gave a brief overview of the preventive measures financed from the pot for fines. Overall, it goes annually by about 30 000 Euros.
One area of application: safety training for young drivers, whereby the district assumes a very substantial part of the costs.
Another field is driving safety training for seniors over the age of 65, which, for example, shows what has changed in traffic law and in half-hourly driving, tests point out quirks that have crept in over the years. Also, the loan of the rollover simulator of the city-Oldenburg road safety or traffic-educational measures in schools with the money from the fines pot is made possible.