Russian schoolchildren will be tested on the topic of road safety

10 December 2020

The press conference was attended by the deputy head of the traffic safety propaganda department of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Police Colonel Hrankevich Sergey Vladimirovich; Head of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Protection of Children's Rights of the Ministry of Education of Russia Khabibullin Ilnur Iskhakovich; General Director of the «Road Safety Russia» Melnikov Vadim Vyacheslavovich; member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Acting Director of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Institute for the Study of Childhood, Family and Upbringing of the Russian Academy of Education” (FGBNU “IIDSV RAO”) Natalya Valentinovna Agra; Head of the Department for the Protection of the Rights and Legal Interests of Minors - Ombudsman for the Rights of the Child in Moscow Yaroslavskaya Olga Vladimirovna; Leading specialist of the city operator for the prevention of DDTT of the Department of Education and Science of Moscow, head of the YUID circle of the GBOU Romanovskaya school Okan Tatyana Viktorovna.

Traffic safety testing of schoolchildren is an annual large-scale event that takes place in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation as part of the implementation of the Federal Road Safety Project. The organizer of the project is the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. For the first time Testing of schoolchildren took place in 2019 and showed great interest in the event - it was attended by about 250 thousand schoolchildren across the country.

As Sergei Khrantskevich noted at the press conference, Testing is an important part of the systemic long-term work on the prevention of child road traffic injuries and the formation of the skills of safe participation in the road traffic among minors. Every year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Ministry of Education of Russia make significant efforts to make the movement of children on the roads safer. Thanks to comprehensive measures from 2009 to 2019 in Russia, according to the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, it was possible to achieve a decrease in child mortality on the roads by 39%.

Despite the decline in the main indicators this year, the state of accidents involving children, as before, remains an acute problem for our country. At the end of 11 months of 2020, 15359 road accidents involving children under the age of 16 were registered, in which 475 children died and 16800 were injured. The measures taken this year to prevent child road traffic injuries have reduced the number of road accidents by 16.6%, the number of deaths by 9.2% and the number of injured children by 16.6%. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, the number of accidents related to violation of the rules for the transportation of children-passengers under the age of 12 continues to grow, i.e. without the use of child restraints and seat belts. There was also an increase in the number of dead children-pedestrians in the dark, who did not have reflective elements on their clothes or accessories.

Since the beginning of the year, the main indicators of road accidents have decreased due to the children's own negligence. However, their number remains high. For 11 months of this year, 4163 (-9.2%) road accidents were registered, in which 4117 (-9.2%) children were injured and 104 (-5.5%) children died.

“Prevention of road traffic injuries among children, preservation of the life and health of children is one of the most important activities in the State Traffic Inspectorate,” emphasized Sergei Khrantskevich. Taking into account the current situation, in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, educational work on the basics of road safety was organized with students, their parents and pedagogical workers in a remote format.

This year, for the first time, all-Russian events that are very significant for children, parents and teachers are held in a non-standard and yet unusual remote format. These are the all-Russian contests “Safe Road for Children” and “The Best Teacher for Teaching Children to Become Safe on the Road”, as well as the final of the All-Russian Contest for Young Traffic Inspectors “Safe Wheel”. Taking into account the trend for online education, within the framework of the federal project "Traffic Safety" of the national project "Safe and High-Quality Roads", all-Russian online testing of children for knowledge of the basics of safe behavior on the roads is provided for schoolchildren of grades 5-11.

The main purpose of the Test is to test students in grades 5-11 of general education organizations of theoretical knowledge and the presence of safe behavior skills in the transport environment. At the same time, testing is aimed at the formation and development of a comprehensive system for the prevention of child road traffic injuries, the development of intellectual and creative potential and personal responsibility for compliance with the rules of the road (hereinafter - traffic rules), including the development of students' competencies related to the use of traffic rules and their negative attitude towards traffic offenders.

Ilnur Khabibullin noted at a press conference that for the Ministry of Education of Russia, undoubtedly, the priority area is to preserve and save the life of every child, bring him up in a safe environment, and ensure his high-quality development, including in the field of health preservation. “The well-being of childhood is a single priority goal of the family, society and the state. Our common goal is to help every child master social skills, including the ability to behave correctly on the road. And testing gives our students an opportunity to remember the basics of safe behavior on the roads, which means that the chance to apply existing knowledge in practice increases. "

“We operate with numbers. But behind them are children's lives, - Natalia Agra emphasized in her speech, - Each question in this testing is aimed at making the child look at this or that rule in a new way, we teach knowledge about how to make decisions on the roads. And safe behavior on the roads is, first of all, a culture of behavior. Testing is a tool to measure the current level of children's culture of behavior. In addition, the result of this test will give us a snapshot of the quality of road safety education. ”

“The topic we are discussing is extremely important - our children have the right to life - this is written in the constitution. The task of adults is to preserve this life - to do everything so that children are properly informed and trained, - Olga Yaroslavskaya believes, - I am for a set of measures. Testing is one of the most important measures. According to statistics, 80% of all accidents with children occur 1 km from their home. This suggests that the parenting community is not serious about the issue of child safety. " The Ombudsman for Children's Rights in Moscow suggested that road safety testing should be in the public domain all year round, and this idea was supported by all those present.

“I want to express my opinion not only on the example of my school, but also many others, since I am a city operator for the prevention of child road traffic injuries in Moscow, - explained Tatiana Okan, - Testing is one of the forms of work and a fairly effective form, according to experience our and other schools, at this stage this is the final test of our work of teachers and parents. And we teachers work not only with children, but also with parents, and it is more difficult to work with them. Children are sometimes much more responsible for what you teach them, and parents are much more likely to violate traffic rules and endanger their children. That is why our task is to involve not only children, but also parents in testing ”.

Vadim Melnikov, General Director of the «Road Safety Russia», spoke about how the testing will take place this year.

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