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  • A laser Traffic signal

    17 September 2013
    Korean artist and designer Hanyoung Lee turned his attention to the fact that in many countries the majority of deaths are due to road traffic accidents. In most cases drivers do not pay attention to pedestrians and drive at high speed under all the signs and pedestrians in their turn do not look on the road and are knocked down. The designer supposed that such a situation can only be solved by using special psychological techniques. This fact has prompted him to create the original laser virtual walls that can replace a traffic light. As you can see right on the roadway during the time of red light signal for the cars real images of...

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  • Russia shows its support for Global Road Safety Week

    07 May 2013
    The President of the NGO Road Safety Russia, Natalia Agre, spoke at the International Road Safety Forum held on 7 May in St Petersburg. The event, which was timed to coincide with the Second UN Global Road Safety Week, was dedicated to pedestrian safety and measures to reduce the number of road traffic accidents involving pedestrians. It was organised by the Commission for Global Road Safety in partnership with Road Safety Russia. Addressing the forum, Ms Agre began by pointing out that Road Safety Russia's main aim, together with the State Automobile Inspectorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, is to create an effective road...

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  • Road fatalities among pedestrians and child-passengers decline

    28 January 2013
    The Road Traffic Safety Department at the Ministry of Interior of the Russian Federation published the road accidents’ statistics for 2012. According to the report 203 597 road accidents occurred last year and there was a 1.9 % increase in number as compared to 2011. There were 27 991 road fatalities (a 0.1% increase). However there was a 8.6% decline in accidents due to the pedestrians’ faults - 28 518 cases in which 4998 people were killed (decline by 8.8 %) and 24 896 persons were injured (decline by 8.1 %). Let us remind that a large-scale the “Walk of life” social campaign was staged across...

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  • Winner of the “Walk of life” sign contest awarded in Yaroslavl

    11 January 2013
    Tunoshna (russian town) resident Anastasia Gorshkova draw guy silhouette with a guitar in his hands on the background of the sign and won the online “Walk of life” sign contest. Her version impressed more than 2600 Russian citizens - that is how much people voted for an unusual sign on the competition website. Photo contest was one of the most popular within the whole “Walk of life” social campaign. Core idea was to "revive" the road sign and make it more distinguishable. More than a thousand people from various regions of Russia sent their pictures and drawings to Moscow.The prizewinner was determined by online...

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