Nationwide, the bright yellow safety vest is distributed to the ABC shooters this year to 750,000 graders in 16,000 primary schools. For the first time, this action took place in 2010 and has until today to issue a total of 5.3 million safety vests to schools free of charge to children starting school. “A Bright Future” is a joint initiative of the ADAC Sifting and Deutsche Post AG.
This year is the School in Kornberg, Herzfeld Rotenberg, one of more than 1,170 schools in Hessen, which takes part in this action. In the school a total of 60 children are being taught at the time.
Along with District Administrator Dr. Michael Koch and the headmaster Horst Brose ski handed the chairman of ADAC Hessen-Thüringen, Matthias Felts, and the safety vests to the 20 first-graders. Nearly 60,000 graders receive one of the reflective safety vests this year and it is time ensured before the dark season that the children are identified at an early stage on the way to school by all road users. If a child is detected in dark clothes and without this vest by a motorist until 25 meters, the recognition with the reflective vest is given after only 140 meters. Completely logical that a safety vest and bright clothes visibility of the children so the risk of accidents is reduced considerably increased on the way to school and.
The ADAC advises
Parents should work with their children before starting school to school. The children learn the safest route and know how to deal with dangerous situations better. “The adults should set a good example so that the first graders reach their destination safely. Our children will have a safe way to school and for these vests are “ideal, so Administrator Dr. Koch at the handover of the West to the kids. Still, he taught at motorists to drive more carefully in the vicinity of schools to appeal.
Accidents with children are still too high
In 2015 wrecked 28,235 children under 15 years on the road, 84 of them died. The primary school children between six and nine years, 7,671 children were involved in accidents and 20 were killed. Children because not have the right view to recognize dangers in time, you have the joint action called “A Bright Future” to life, to make the kids more visible. The German mail brings the safety vests with reflective tape about 30,000 packages for free to schools. The ADAC Sifting has been designed for safety action courseware and posted on the Internet.