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Totana Local Police starts a campaign to control school transportation in the city promoted by the DGT (01/12/2015)

The Local Police of Totana has joined promoted by the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) campaign, which aims to ensure the safety of schoolchildren in all schools, with the control of restraint systems and own vehicles.

According to sources from the headquarters of the local police, on Monday began throughout the country the Special Campaign on Surveillance and Control of Juvenile and School Transportation, a campaign to be held in the city until next Friday, December 4th.

All vehicles used for school transport must meet a number of requirements (contained in the RD 443/2001 of 27 April) as the requirement that minors be accompanied on the bus by a suitably qualified person, the maximum age of vehicles intended for such passengers, unlimited liability insurance or be mandatory busing signal, among other issues.

Although the bus is the means of transport has the lowest rate of harmfulness (14 times smaller than the car), the special social sensitivity on minors makes it be extreme measures and controls on road safety.

Especially if you consider that 90% of accidents that occur during school transportation takes place at the time of getting on or off buses;

that school transportation is subject to a number of standards compliance with which is in many cases the safety of their children so parents should demand them;

and only two out of five buses carrying belts installed.

The importance of school transport in urban areas, mainly in certain places where there is a higher concentration of colleges, makes participation in this campaign Hall has a special relevance.

The agents carry out inspections on vehicles and drivers and verify the use of restraint systems by all users of school transport.

The campaign is carried out by the staff of the local police and;

To do this, they have scheduled a series of checks and inspections of all school transport and child running on this locality, avoiding duplication of inspections when the transport flow through urban and intercity roads or have been controlled by the Guard Civil Traffic.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana

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