ADAC distributed with the Lord Mayor Safety reflective vest to schoolchildren. Start of the action at the community school Carl Schurz. Still in Germany, too many children are still in traffic. Particularly in the autumn and winter the accident risk increases, because the small traffic participants are often seen too late because of the morning darkness. This is why all school beginners in Germany receive a shining safety jacket.
Since mid-September 770,000 security vestments have been distributed to more than 16 700 schools across Germany. This is also the case on Monday at the Bonner Carl Schurz. Bonn’s mayor Jorgen, the board member of ADAC, Gird Blame, and the head of the branch letter Deutsche Post DHL, Heike Mars, handed over 80 safety vests to the first years.
Conductor Patricia Schulte’s opened the action: “We would like to thank the sponsors, a great action.” Nymphs added: “Every child is to be seen well, especially to the youngest that have been trained.” In 2012 6418 children under 15 years of age, 178 of them in Bonn died in road traffic. Ten children died; in Bonn fortunately none. “This is 15 per cent fewer accidents with children nationwide, but children died in the end, which is an incentive to continue our work,” says Blame.
Altogether, around 3200 high visibility vest are distributed to 58 schools in Bonn, and 175,000 are nationwide at over 3550 schools. “We’ve packed about 18,000 parcels for schools all over Germany, and we’re making a clear mark with strong, credible partners,” says Mars. At the end of the event, each child was given a group photo of colored pencils and balloons. The campaign has already been carried out in the fourth year by the “Yellow Angel” foundation of the ADAC, the BILD charity organization.