While patrolling the streets of a city
While patrolling the streets of a Scottish town, a police crew noticed a strange thing. Several children were lying on the road on the white lines and even on the sidewalk, playing dead. When the police asked them why they were doing this, they replied that their parents had told them so. The real reason is a surprising one.
Several children who are pupils at a school in Scotland have pretended to be dead and lying on a road, but the reason is unsuspected.
An NGO in Scotland and the Banchory School in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, have launched a campaign to question how children die because of the way many drivers drive.
The project received controversial opinions. This was done in order to attract the attention of drivers and make them drive more cautiously.
The project consisted of several children lying on the roads on the double line separating the traffic directions and on the sidewalks.
However, it is understandable that many parents were outraged by this method, obviously considering it a risky method in which children could be injured. An NGO aiming at road safety has also condemned the project.
The campaign aimed, in addition to this aspect, to signal parents who take their children from school or lead them to be much more careful in the way they drive and where they stop to get their children down.
Despite all these controversial opinions, the local authorities have welcomed this initiative and want the message to reach the ears of all drivers and respect it. First of all, parents need to be educated to teach their children where and when to cross but also how to pay attention to traffic.
A local councilor reported that he totally agrees with this campaign because his son was on the verge of tragedy in the same area.
He said he fully agrees with the parents’ initiative to implement this campaign to signal the driving style that drivers adopt. He said that there are many situations in which children die due to road accidents and that people are not educated at all in terms of road traffic. They pass quickly over speed limits, park next to road markings, and are not paying attention to pedestrian crossings.