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State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Russia carried out campaign "Safe zebra" in Moscow
A campaign "Safe zebra" was arranged for children in the garden "Hermitage" in Moscow. Employees of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate together with Russian pop stars told the school children of elementary grades about the necessity of observance of traffic safety rules.
Among the participants of the event was the chief state inspector of traffic safety of the Russian Federation colonel general of militia Victor Kiryanov and well-known art workers: Lev Leshchenko, Igor Butman, Pavel Lungin, groups "Chelsea", "Mobile blondes" and many others.
As a whole, the campaign "Safe zebra" was conceived as a reminder to adults and children of the it being crucial to observe rules of safe behavior on roads. The issue of safety on roads remains always urgent, because the number of traffic accidents involving children remains intolerably high in Russia despite a decreasing trend.
The chief state inspector of traffic safety of Russia Victor Kiryanov declared: "We would like to remind to everybody, primarily to young pedestrians, of the observance of traffic rules as the only variant of behavior on roads. We had a good reason to have called the campaign "Safe zebra". After all, the zebra is a symbol of safety for pedestrians".
Showing the solidarity in struggle for safety on roads, the adult participants of the event painted 10 full-scale figures of zebras together with children.
Later the symbols of the campaign, the painted zebras will appear in Moscow as a reminder of the necessity to observe traffic safety rules. And some of them will be presented to regions who lead the decreasing trend for the number of traffic accident involving children, namely: to Sverdlovsk, Penza regions and Republic Tatarstan.
Within the campaign, educational games and entertaining competitions were carried out for children which ensured their better understanding of the traffic safety rules.
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