DOTC trains student leaders, teachers on road safety
Breaking News • 23:35 PM Wed Oct 22, 2014
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By:
Roel Osano, DXOM-FM Koronadal
Participants in the Road Safety Advocacy Training of student leaders and teachers in Koronadal City (Roel Osano)
KORONADAL CITY - To ensure road safety at least
150 elementary pupils and teachers underwent a Road Safety Advocacy Training of
Student Leaders and Teachers.
This was in line with the celebration of road
safety day in Koronadal City last Tuesday.
Dante Lantin, Assistant Secretary for
Administration of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC),
said road crash is a problem killing at least 3,561 people around the world
daily that needs to be solved.
In the Philippines alone, at least 34 people
perished to road accidents daily.
Our focuses now are elementary pupils, because
victims of road accidents in the Philippines are mostly children aging from 12
years old and below,” Lantin told DXOM FM Koronadal Wednesday.
Participants were trained on how to read traffic
signs, and other basic tips to avoid road accidents.
Lantin appealed to the student leaders and
teachers who attended the training to impart what they have learned in their
respective schools.
To stop the problem on road accidents, road
discipline must be taught to children at an early age, these are the people
that we would like to save,” Lantin said.
The municipalities of Tupi and Polomolok in South
Cotabato are implementing the Speed Limit Ordinance because of increasing fatal
road accidents.
Although implementation of the ordinance can be
a good start, we will not need any rule to ensure road safety as along as we
are disciplined,” Lantin said.
South Cotabato Board Member Esther Marin Catorce,
who chairs the Education Committee of the provincial board, said because of its
success they are planning to hold road safety advocacy training in other areas
in the province.