We are all pedestrians: cartoons for road safety
Did you know that:
- Each year in Europe more than 8,000 pedestrians are involved in traffic accidents with fatal consequences.
- The majority of accidents involving pedestrians happen in urban areas and almost a quarter of those on pedestrian crossings.
- In 30% of accidents involving a car traveling at 40 km / h and a pedestrian's risk of fatal outcome.
- The rules of movement may vary considerably from one country to another. For example, did you know that Italians on pedestrian crossings, pedestrians have the right to cross only if they have already begun to cross?
- Overtake a bus at a bus stop and cross the road immediately in front of a bus can create dangerous situations for pedestrians.
- Park a car near a pedestrian crossing can drastically reduce mutual visibility between pedestrians and drivers and create a very dangerous situation.
- Children are not able to estimate the speed of approaching vehicles.
For these reasons, the exhibition will be inaugurated Saturday in Bologna on pedestrians ('We are all pedestrians') is certainly a good idea and a good initiative. The cartoons made by cartoonists and some great Italian artists (Altan, Staino, Vauro, Giannelli, Julian) are certainly a reflection on the world of pedestrians, a component of mobility is particularly low. And, after all, we are all pedestrians ....
The site of the Republic (and maybe others) has anticipated the cartoons . I've got some choices that I enclose below.
Hello,
I was quite interested in your piece on security.
I also doing my own blog on the topic ( http://www.agenzia-investigazioni-sicurezza.info ).
I hope you will give them a look!
Good job
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But ... let me know when the link is active, is still under construction ....