Volunteers Apandis traffic accident victims return to work with the Department of Public Safety of the City of Lorca explaining what they have suffered the consequences.
The Traffic Department collaborates with the teaching material of this awareness program in schools.
The City Council Public Safety of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez, and the president of the association of parents of children with disabilities in the region of Lorca, Apandis Pedro Arcas, presented this morning by the Provincial Traffic Chief, Virginia Jerez The new municipal campaign driver education in high schools of the municipality, with which it will reach 1,796 students from 11 schools, with its expansion this year to students in School 1.
Perez reported that "the main novelty is that high school students in their classrooms will have a breathalyzer simulator that reproduces the curve that allows visually understand how alcohol is metabolized in the body according to sex, age, weight, meals and drinks consumed as beverages equivalences, the effects of alcohol on driving and eliminating blood alcohol besides legislation and practical advice. Also the municipal officers carried classroom simulation glasses of alcohol, possessing a lens special that allows the user to experience how alcohol affects balance, vision, reaction time and judgment tool, so that it serves as a preventive tool to avoid the consequences of alcohol abuse. "
Similarly, after the success of the pilot project last year, volunteers Apandis traffic accident victims return to work in this campaign relatándole to students in 3rd Secondary experiences after suffering the consequences of a serious accident traffic.
In addition, students will see a video on driving mopeds, protection elements, rules and tips, documentation and safe ...
In this sense, Belén Pérez stressed that "thanks to the volunteers Andres Zapata and Jose Antonio Garcia, supported by your Coordinator Patricia Melenchón, we will announce the consequences directly through the voices of those who have had the misfortune of . I suffer them in person is an impressive initiative, but we have seen that influence students in a positive way because it allows a maximum awareness through the interaction between affected and young people as a common effort that allows to face is achieved and experience to those affected, knowing the consequences, but also the effort undertaken to resume their lives. At the same time, students may ask members of Security Management Unit of the local police, meet and especially , become aware of the importance of road safety, which is the ultimate goal of this Plan. "
In this regard, the City Council Public Safety also thanked the Traffic Department collaboration with the educational material provided in this awareness program among students in schools.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca