Road safety for children
By
Zuhur Yassin Ibrahim--Somaliland
A large
number of people, especially children, die due to road accidents every day
around the world. The risks of accidents even increase with the bad roads
and many inexperienced drivers in the cities of Somaliland. People that die
are someone’s sister, friend, mother, father, brother. We should act to save
the innocent lives.
Let’s start
with the authorities convincing them to make the
penalties of careless driving much stricter. Let there be harsh consequences
to pay, for others to know that driving carelessly is no more tolerated.
Lectures should be prepared about how adding more speed breakers, traffic
police, road signs and building broken roads will make it safer for children
and all. Even though it costs dollars there is no price worth a life.
The
mass media is a great way to change behaviour, we should use the platform to
promote safe driving. Messages on road safety should be Newspapers, T.V
radios all the time. We should also work on how we can include sessions on
road safety into our education curriculum system. Teaching signs, symbols,
and safety rules to those at school is a key to save innocent lives. Parent
and elders have a part to play; meetings on road safety should be held for
communities. Children everywhere should be supervised while out on the road.
Teaching your child from a young age what is right and wrong on the road
will make a difference for young and old.
Young people have
a job to do; act responsibly while on car, bicycle or foot. They should help
the younger ones to know and learn. They should understand that there is
nothing worth a life.
Everyone has a part to play so that our children and families are safe on
the roads. The world today is filled with problems; it is individuals like
us who can make a difference.