In Hilden Monday made 37 preschoolers fit for traffic. After all, many are attracted to dark and difficult to see. Only last Friday, it happened again – a six-year-old boy was hit on the way to school by a car. He walked carelessly into the street and was seen too late by a motorist. Luckily he was only slightly injured. Even so, the police took the case as an opportunity to make the parents of school children point out once again that children should wear brighter and reflective clothing.
The purpose also follows the series “twinkle in the dark,” the Monday has made in the Caritas daycare sunflower in Hilden support. 37 pre-school children aged five to six years has been lacking playfully fit for road traffic – especially in what concerns colors and reflectors.
“It’s amazing how few children wear reflectors.”
Karoline shrub-Schmitz, General Manager Road Safety
“Finn’s jacket is the best way to see” the children when they faced each other in the darkened dining room of the day care center in jackets and winter boots and the light beam of flashlights fell on the bright green winter jacket shouting. Other kids thought Thales jacket best seen – a pale lilac model with reflective stripes.
The group of Finn and Thales is the third to be conducted on that day by the program of road safety organization. “This is a very good group,” says Andrea Hoofer from kindergarten – she means both colors of the clothes and the children’s attention. Karoline shrub-Schmitz, Managing Director of Road Safety, agrees. In contrast, it was surprising how many children wore still dark or black jackets. “It’s amazing how few children wear reflective safety vest,” she says. The problem was mainly the parents who endogen their children to dark clothing. “Parents pull children like little adults.”
In this group there were some dark blue or black jackets. It should be bright, reflective clothing so important, says Karoline shrub-Schmitz. The number of accidents with children was gone off. That is why the children would have to be sensitized. So you could also put pressure on the parents. “Otherwise, we reach the little.” This year the traffic guards were the first time at the four day care centers in Hilden guest. Grate from the city says it is still money been left out of the pot of state funding for transport projects, as he had requested for the project Hilden.
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Karoline shrub-Schmitz says it generally spend more money on traffic education – for all ages. Especially in children (see box). Especially children lacked increasing traffic competence. “The children are executed placed anywhere and moved. They lose their own mobility “- and that increases the risk of accidents.” You will lose the ability to self-navigate the traffic.” And if they did but then tried by a day to the times themselves, the uncertainty is large, and the danger too.
Andrea Hoofer from kindergarten Sunflower, it is important to prepare the children to the school. “Many of the children go in the coming year in various elementary schools, some with wide school routes.” The Kita strip their contribution: “We go for walks and in winter even practice the way to school,” she said. But every other program would be welcome. Because even if many would walk – a lot of kids would just yet driven by car to the day care center when their parents they would bring over on the way to work.
For the children, the program Monday was especially great fun. The children were not only the self-experiment in the dark, first without, then with reflective vest in the glow of the flashlight. They painted a paper figure on their own terms, in order to subsequently be compared to a dark painted figure in a cardboard: Which is more visible? Guidelines for the structure did not exist. The children should realize the visibility of their own color choice. Leading the charge were inspired by football color combinations such as black and yellow, blue, red and black, red and gold. But at least there were colors that are far more visible than black, gray and brown.