Street Sense Organisation Educates Pupils of Jack and Jill School on Road Safety
Road Safety Advocate and Patron of Street Sense Organisation (SSO), Rev. Precious Coffie, has educated pupils of the Jack and Jill School on road safety.
The education was a demonstration of SSO’s commitment to heighten awareness on road safety among school children and citizens to help reduce road accidents in the country.
To make the talk practical, Rev. Coffie showed and explained inscriptions on picture posters to the pupils. Some inscriptions read: "Avoid Traffic Jams on the Railways”; “Children as Cyclists”; “Pedestrians, Prevent an Accident by Being a Guardian Angel”; “Avoid Using Damaged Windscreens”; “Crossing the Road”; “Avoid Swerving Potholes”; “See and be Seen” among others.
Rev. Coffie demonstrated to the pupils how to cross the road, indicating that pedestrians should look left, right, and left again to make sure there is no vehicle coming before they cross the road.
She further explained how to read the traffic light. "... the traffic light will be red for the vehicle to stop, at the same time, the pelican will be green for pedestrians to cross... The traffic and the pelican cannot be red at the same time... All the time you will find the pelican light green whiles the traffic light is red, and when it's getting to yellow, it means the pelican light is counting up to zero, which is telling you to stop, so the pelican light will show a red human being in it standing, but if it is green for you to go, the pelican person will be walking," she detailed.
A cross section of the students asked questions – notable among them were bus conductors who shouted when calling passengers and jaywalking.
In response to their questions, Rev. Coffie hinted that it was an offense for bus conductors and drivers to hoot and blow horns when looking for passengers and using earpiece when walking along the road was an offense and liable to prosecution. She advised the pupils to desist from using phone and doing homework on the road.