2024-09-01 07:00:20
Safe routes to school are a top priority for traffic police every day – especially when school starts. Therefore, around 500 police officers will be deployed to protect school routes when school starts in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. They are supported by senior students, parents, grandparents and community service staff. Most primary schools have developed school route plans.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner: “When it comes to road traffic, we adults have a responsibility to ensure that our children get to school and back home safely. The police will ensure that all road users take special care of our children on their way to school. Khanna called on people to watch out for children, especially near schools, and be prepared to hit the brakes. ”
The Interior Ministry said: “As Minister of the Interior, I and more than 32,000 police officers must ensure the security of this country. This also includes road safety, for which my colleagues are deployed continuously and often dangerously on Austria’s roads. “In view of the upcoming opening of schools in the eastern Austrian states of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, I would like to point out the importance of safety on the way to school and call on all drivers to pay special attention to children near schools and to be ready to brake, the police will be at Be with you when school starts.
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As part of ensuring the safety of routes to school, the police rely on proven measures: monitoring of routes to school at key junctions, speed checks near schools and kindergartens, monitoring of the correct traffic of children and the requirement to wear seat belts as part of schools and protected route areas. Correct behavior.
In addition to traffic control, the federal police also carry out prevention, awareness-raising and educational activities as part of traffic education in schools. Around 300,000 children are rescued every year across Austria. Children learn to recognize and avoid hazards in traffic. For example, they learned that smartphones and headphones can impair their concentration in traffic and pose a huge danger.
An accident occurred on the way to school
In 2023, 494 children were injured in traffic accidents on their way to school (2022: 434). Last year, two children (11, 13) died in traffic accidents on their way to school (2021 and 2022: 1; 2017, 2018 and 2020: 0; 2019: 4).
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