Congratulations to the employees of the General Department of Road Traffic Safety on their professional holiday!

03 July 2014

3 July - the Day of the General Department of Road Traffic Safety of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. On this day we would like to congratulate the Department’s employees, both current and former, on their professional holiday, and thank them for their invaluable contribution to the fight for safe roads in our country.

NGO Road Safety Russia’s main objective is to protect the lives of road users and ensure that travelling on Russian roads is trouble-free and pleasant. In working towards this objective, the main task has been to improve the attitudes and behaviour of road users in Russia. And here the General Department of Road Traffic Safety has provided crucial assistance.

Together with the Department we have run numerous campaigns, including: ”Brake in Advance!”, “Above all, wear a helmet!”,  “Car Seats for Children”, “The Walk of Life”, “Buckle Up”, and “No Rush”. Thanks to the employees of the Road Traffic Safety Department, we now have extensive knowledge about road safety, and with their help we are able to analyse the situation on the roads.

To improve road safety education and attitudes and behaviour, and to increase concern about road safety, every year the General Department of Road Traffic Safety organises fun educational events for children and teenagers, runs seminars and training courses for adults, holds press conferences to explain the latest changes to the law, and actively polices our roads to detect offenders who pose a danger. This work has, of course, had an effect. The results are seen in the universal media interest in road safety, the increased number of hours allocated to road safety lessons in schools and nurseries, and the greater attention paid by drivers to road traffic regulations. But the main achievement is that road safety has improved: in the last ten years the road traffic death rate in Russia has fallen by more than 20%. Factoring in the increased number of vehicles on the roads, the transport risk in Russia has almost halved.

We thank the employees of the General Department of Road Traffic Safety for their commitment to reducing road accident deaths. On this day, their professional holiday, we wish them good health, happiness, and every success in their vital work to protect human lives on the roads. We hope that our future holds many more successful road safety projects and events. Congratulations!  

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