The Tenth Anniversary “Safety Laboratory” Exhibition Opened in Kaluga Region
On June 16, Kaluga hosted the presentation of the children’s innovative Center for Road Traffic Safety. The event was attended by Aleksandr Savin, the Chief Federal Inspector for Kaluga Region of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District; Sergey Efremov, the Deputy Executive Director of the Russian Association of Motor Insurers; Nataliya Agre, the President of the “Risk-Free Road Traffic” Expert Center; Aleksey Kholopov, the Chief State Inspector for Road Traffic Safety in Kaluga Region; Aleksandr Anikeev, the Minister of Education and Science of Kaluga Region; Andrey Smolovik, the Director of the Kaluga Branch of Sogaz, JSC, as well as representatives of the regional executive authorities, heads of the regional branches of insurance companies, Kaluga teachers and students.
Let us remind you that the “Safety Laboratory” project is implemented in line with the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, issued following the meeting of the Presidium of the State Council in March 2016. The project is organized by the State Motor Vehicle Inspectorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Association of Motor Insurers with the information support of the “Risk-Free Road Traffic” Expert Center. Kaluga Region became the tenth anniversary region that participated in this large-scale and important project.
The event was started on a sunny morning on the square before the Regional Center of Additional Education for Children, with a vivid performance of the children’s movement of Young Traffic Inspectors, in which over twenty inspectors welcomed the project with the words of the song “Road Traffic Rules”. Then, in honor of the Center’s opening, honorary guests of the event and the project organizers, together with little road users, solemnly cut the red ribbon.
The event was continued by Dmitry Stebakov, a coach of the “Risk-Free Road Traffic” Expert Center, who gave a tour for all comers, presenting the mobile center for children, and talked about the elements of the program. In the assembly hall of the educational institution he demonstrated an equipped ground with cones, stands, a mock-up table, bicycles, and elements of the road transport network, where children learnt difficult aspects of the safe traffic rules. The visit ended with a discussion of some project-related issues.
The crucial point of the event was the press conference which was opened, on behalf of the regional government, by Aleksandr Anikeev, the Minister of Education and Science of Kaluga Region. He said that the children’s safety on the road was an important area of activity in the Region. Such projects as the “Safety Laboratory” improved the situation around the children’s injuries on the regional road and increased the level of culture of all road users without exception.
Aleskey Kholopov, the Chief State Inspector for Road Traffic Safety in Kaluga Region, stressed that safety of children on the road is one of the region’s priorities. Unfortunately, for five months of the current year we have seen the 27% increase in the RTAs involving children, in which 4 children died. The number of injured has also increased. “Reducing the level of children’s injuries on roads can be achieved due to systematic preventive activities. I am sure that the today’s opening of the Center will allows us to stabilize the situation and to make our region a territory where children will live safely,” the Police Colonel said.
Nataliya Agre, the President of the “Risk-Free Road Traffic” Expert Center, stressed that the Safety Laboratory project was not the first one to be implemented in Kaluga Region. Previously, the Center had held such campaigns as “Restraints for Children”, “Fasten the Belt!”, “Slow down!”, and “Observe the Rules!”. Therefore, establishing the Innovative Center for Road Traffic Safety that provides for comprehensive children training in the road safety was a logical continuation of the long-term cooperation and collaboration. She noted that the uniqueness of the new project lied in its mobility and the possible involvement of a large audience of children from 5 to 14 years. A modular program had been developed that provides training not only for children, but also for adults. In total, for two years it was planned to train over 4,000 children in the Region.
Sergey Efremov, the Deputy Executive Director of the Russian Association of Motor Insurers, said in his speech that, over the past decade, the RAMI, in cooperation with the State Motor Vehicle Inspectorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the “Risk-Free Road Traffic” Expert Center, had carried out long-term work to improve road safety, implementing all-Russian social projects, this project being the largest of them. “Children's life is priceless! The “Safety Laboratory” is not a charitable project of insurers, but a reserve for the future, aimed at ensuring road safety in our country. The insurance community is interested in reducing the number of road accidents, that of injured and killed people on the roads, because this is an important social and economic task. Now it is important for the road traffic safety training to be effective in all regions and, without a doubt, the “Safety Laboratory” project will help us in achieving this goal”, the RAMI’s representative added.
At the end of the press conference Andrey Smolovik, the Director of the Kaluga Branch of Sogaz, JSC, took the floor and stressed that it was no coincidence that Kaluga Region was the tenth anniversary region, because it always went calmly, systematically, and fell into the “Ten (Hit the mark)!”
Words of support and gratitude to the project organizers came also from Igor Tsvetkov, the Director of the Kaluga Branch of the Ingossrakh Insurance Company, and Marina Sorokina, the Director of the Regional Center for Additional Education for Children named after Gagarin, on the basis of which the “Safety Laboratory” will work.
After the speakers’ presentations the moderator gave the floor to the audience. They raised the question of training in traffic rules outside the project, improvement of road infrastructure, and other.
During the two years of the project implementation it is planned to involve 30 regions of the country in total. To date the “Safety Laboratory” centers have already opened their doors in Tula, Tambov, Kostroma, Smolensk, Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Leningrad, Vladimir, Kaluga Regions, and the Republic of Khakassia.
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