Road Safety Training

Handicap International Belgium

Contents

• Global Road Safety• Road crash spots and clips• Road safety situation in the Lao PDR• Causes of road crashes• Advice on safe driving• Advice on prevention and reduction of

head injuries and road deaths• In case of a road crash • UNICEF situation + local examples

Global Road Safety

Mike Goodge presentation…

UNICEF

Road Safety among UNICEF staffs…

Driving license

Accident experiences

Accident causes

All accident causes reported by female staff were being ‘hit by others’

Other causes…1.Did not watch other vehicles carefully

2.Hit the car's door, which was parked at road side and while the car's driver opened the car's door suddenly without attention to other vehicles

3.No significant accident, but many close misses

Use of helmet and seat belt

I don’t like wearing helmet because...

I don’t like wearing seatbelt because…

Other information

UNICEF’s 20 driving principles

Road safety situation in the Lao PDR

Road crashes nationwide 2001-2009

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Data source: MPWT

Road Safety situation in the Lao PDR

Road safety situation in the Lao PDR

Road safety situation in the Lao PDR

Road crash break down by type of vehicles

Source: HIB FSH HospitalSurveys 2007-2009

Road safety situation in the Lao PDR

Road accident break down by age group

Data source: HIB FSH HospSurvey 2009

The causes of road crashes…

Road environmentVehicle conditionHuman error

95%

of all road crashes are caused by human error!!

Road environment

Do you know what will be under-neath the water?

Road environment

If heavy rain, slow down!!

Potholes

Road environment

Be careful when students go to school

Vehicle condition

Your vehicle must be in a safe condition!!!

Working lights are life-saving!!!

Human error

The owner of the animal is at fault in case of an accident!

Running red Running red rightright!!

Human error

Human error

No helmets

Speeding

Carelessness

Talking while driving

Human error

Don’t Drink and Drive!!!

Human error

Don’t drive on the wrong side!!!

The danger of driving on the wrong sideThe danger of driving on the wrong side

The danger of driving on the wrong sideThe danger of driving on the wrong side

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Turning into a main road

5. Check again behind and on your left, as somebody might overtake you!

2. Indicate to the left!

4. Stop at the turning point and let oncoming traffic pass! The oncoming traffic has priority!

3. Carefully move to the center of the road!

6. Make a wide left turn!

1. Check the traffic behind you!

Correct left turn

How to use a roundabout correctly How to use a roundabout correctly

Who should go first?

Visibility

Make yourself visible at night time

Front light

Mirrors

Tires

Signal light

ChainBreak system

Back light

Vehicle check-upVehicle check-up

Stop when using your mobile…Stop when using your mobile…

Talking on the phone + driving = Talking on the phone + driving = AccidentAccident

How to prevent head injuries and death

• Always wear your helmet!

• Choose a good quality helmet!

• Close your chinstrap tightly!

Wear the helmet to protect your head!!!

Good quality helmet

• Strong outer shell made special plastic material!

• Hard and thick inner styrofoam shell!

• Chinstrap made from good material!

• Must have quality label of country of origin!

Bad quality helmet

You can avoid being fined by the Traffic Police…

But…

Can you avoid head injury?

About seatbelts

Seatbelts

• hold you back in case of a crash, preventing severe internal, facial and head injuries.

• must be used by all people in the car (front & back seated).

• still must be used, even if your car has an airbag.

Always fasten your seatbelt while driving!

In case of accident…

PP Protect the scene and yourself! (to avoid other vehicles crashing

into the accident site)

AA Assess the problem!

NN Number of people

II Injuries

CC Call for help!

UNICEF situation

The questionnaires resulted on 7th -27th Nov 2009

37% response rate (23/62) 43.5% males (10); 56.5% females (13) 60.9% (14) of staff want a driving training 81.8% (18) of staff want a driving test 14 family members want driving training 09 family members want a driving test

Group discussion...Picture….

….. Black spot improvement

UNICEF’s 20 driving principles

Thanks

Road safety begins with you!!