Ga District Teachers Undertake Course On Road Safety

Accra, July 8, Fourteen Teachers drawn from schools in the Ga District began a week-long workshop on the rudiments of road safety yesterday as part of measures to introduce road safety education into the curriculum of schools. The workshop, organised by the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC), is to provide materials and information to teachers to educate pupils on traffic regulations, Mr. Justice M.Y. Amegashie, Executive Director of NRSC has said. It is sponsored by British Department for International Development (DFID). Mr. Amegashie said the workshop is to ensure that children have survival skills because of threat to them by road users and for them to change the behaviour of parents on traffic regulations. Mr. Amegashie said the workshop is being organised for teachers from the rural setting because their schools are fairly close to highways and from time to time they get knocked down and even killed. "Besides, it is believed that road safety education will help children cope with traffic better whenever they visit urban areas." Mrs. Olaiyinka Dickson, the workshop co-ordinator, said the participants will be taken through traffic safety, how to behave in traffic, how to cross the road and where to sit in a vehicle.