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Majlinda Ibrahimi
- 13 May 2024 19:29
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In order to prevent fatal accidents near educational institutions and to increase the safety of students, the Embassy of Slovenia has promoted guidelines that include recommendations for increasing road safety. This Embassy appreciates the need for sensitization of traffic participants.
The Embassy of Slovenia in Kosovo appreciates the need to sensitize traffic participants to increase safety on the roads near educational institutions, to prevent fatal accidents.
For this, the embassy, together with the Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community in Slovenia, have promoted guidelines that include recommendations for increasing road safety.
"I still remember that at school we had workshops every year from which we learned about road safety, how to cross the road, how to go from home to school and vice versa. And what you are seeing today is the result of the work of the Slovenian state for years so that children go to school healthy and well. These guidelines are used in Slovenia and can be a model for other countries. For the implementation of this, the cooperation of all actors is needed, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Education, the police and parents", said Mince Benedejçic, ambassador of Slovenia in Kosovo.
Even the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Hysen Durmishi, appreciated the need to sensitize drivers when they pass near schools.
"In the period January-March 2024, 17 people lost their lives, while in 2023, 24 people. So 7 fewer people died this year compared to last year, or 29.6 percent. While the number of injured people has decreased by 0.17 percent compared to the previous year. All of us in one way or another are participants in road traffic and as such, each of us is responsible for our own safety and that of the participants in road traffic", stated Durmishi.
Members from the Ministry of Education were absent from the promotion of the guidelines.
The guide envisages training students in crossing the road and informing drivers about increasing safety on the roads near educational institutions.
