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In line with the “Students’ Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility” Campaign, recently launched by the Abu Dhabi Traffic and Patrols Directorate, the SAAED Company for Traffic Systems distributed traffic awareness publications and took part in organizing traffic in front of schools. . This aims to enhance awareness and provide traffic safety for students.
Engineer Ibrahim Ramel, Chief Executive Officer, emphasized SAAED’s keenness to promote the concept of traffic safety, based on its societal role and responsibility, and within its strategic partnership with the directorate. This is achieved by implementing integrated programs for awareness raising and harnessing modern methods and techniques to provide traffic safety for students, and protect them against any potential accidents they may face during the new academic year.
He also urged motorists and bus drivers to increase efforts to provide traffic safety for students, through full compliance with traffic laws and speed limits on roads, and parking in safe locations as the students board or exit the bus. He also called on them to abide by the golden rule for using buses, and refrain from overloading the school buses.
Moreover, he advised parents to educate their children on the safe methods to cross roads, and the need to stand in the designated locations. He also stressed the need to comply with the safe practice of placing children under 10 years of age in their designated seats in the back seat of the vehicle.
Furthermore, Engineer Ibrahim Ramel stressed the need for bus drivers to adhere to traffic rules and safety instructions, to be cautious while approaching places where students crowd, to avoid taking off before making sure that all students have boarded or exited the bus and crossed the road to school or to their homes. He also emphasized the need to adhere to speed limits, avoid sudden stops, as well as the need for regular maintenance of the bus to ensure safety and comfort means.
Concluding, Eng. Ramel stressed the importance of providing supervisors in buses transporting young children, to make sure they are picked up or dropped off close to their homes and avoid having them cross the streets either in front of the bus or behind it.
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