Toyota Hold Children’s Safety Day

Toyota is to hold the 35th Toyota Safety School in Tokyo aiming to improve safety awareness amongst children.

The event is well supported by the local police authorities and has been held since 1975 for children in kindergarten and nursery schools. The event is held in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan for 26 days starting this Monday.

The event aims to give children a fun and interesting way to learn about road safety and how they can apply traffic rules to their daily lives.

At the event, the Toyota traffic-safety mascots—Safety Man, Safety Woman, and Cuccu-doodle-doo—will teach children the importance of being aware of their surroundings and potential dangers through a skit featuring real street scenes and sound effects, such as railway crossings.

There will also be a quiz in which children identify street sounds such as car horns and tire screeches, an animated video about traffic safety and instruction on how to properly cross an intersection with traffic lights.

Approximately 5,350 children from 119 kindergartens and nursery schools are expected to participate this year.

Similar schemes are supplied through the government in the UK but more could be done by independent manufacturers to take responsibility. The more aware children are from a young age the safer our roads will be.

E. Dooley

21/05/2009