SAFE DRIVE SAVES LIFE
GUIDE Prepared by participants at the Erasmus+ project “Safe Drive Saves Life” in Radozda, Macedonia Publishing date: 24.04.2016
Dear reader,
This document is a result of the work of the 40 participants who attended the Erasmus+ youth exchnage “Safe Drive Saves Life” in Radozda, Macedonia in the period from April 15th to April 24th. The youth exchange was concentrated on the topic of safe drive and prevention of road violence. This project educated young people about the importance of their driving culture, obedience of the rules in traffic and how they can assist the people in case of road accidents. During this project, the participants researched more about their own countries and prepared the “Safe Drive Saves Life Guide” which is a great opportunity for everyone to learn more about the driving rules, prevention and driving culture in the five countries included in the project: Macedonia, Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Estonia. Take a look at the Guide and learn more! Yours, Safe Drive Saves Life Team!
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Macedonia
Prevention → The road safety in Macedonia is regulated by the Law of traffic safety brought by our parliament. The law comprises the regulation of the basic principles, mutual relations with participants, and other entities in the traffic, road signs, signaling equipment and duties in case of accidents. If the rules are violated sanctions are taken by the Ministry of inferior. → Auto-Moto Association of Macedonia (AMSM) is Macedonia´s largest automobile club responsible for the safety of the roads.
Fun facts → In order to get driving license, people need to enroll in private driving school and take driving license. → The body responsible for giving the final decision about receiving driving license is independent of the private driving school.
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→ According to the latest WHO data published in May 2014,
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road traffic accident deaths in Macedonia reached 157 or 0,91% of total deaths. → Compared to 2013, in 2014 the number of car accidents was reduces to 8,9%. → The government is not investing much in infrastructure, so in Macedonia there are investments from abroad in a form of public private partnerships (PPP) between the government and private companies from abroad. → Recent investment in infrastructure have been made with the construction of multistorey parkings, motorways and natural gas distribution network. → In Macedonia there aren´t many bicycle roads because of that there were many initiatives by the NGOs but nothing has been done so far. The motorcyclists also have this kind of problems.
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Funny examples and signs Accidents that changed the law → It didn’t acctualy change the law, but it brought more safety to the roads in Romania, where
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one man lost control over the vehicle and went on the opposite lane. The accident took 10 lives.
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Prevention → Almost all roads are monitored through cameras. → The cyclists have to wear bright vests at night to avoid accidents. → Many roads have bumpers for decreasing the speed of the car. → Drivers who just got their driving license have a speed limit of 20 km/h, where normally it is 50 km/h.
Fun facts → There is a village with 200 road signs on a distance of only 2 km. → In Brasov, the ambulances are moving too slow, because of many bumpers who are put on a very small distance.
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Slovakia
Fun facts → Slovakia has a highest number of cars production per inhabitant in the world → Youth in Slovakia are allowed to gain a driving license at the age of 17 (with supervision of experienced driver) → We have a bilingual signs for minorities → Every hour there is a radio
Prevention
program informing people
→ Implementation of european
about current situation on the
rules and laws with certain
roads of Slovakia.
specifications for Slovakia (0%
→ The number of car crashes in
alcohol, etc.).
Slovakia decreased rapidly
→ Road safety: different
when we joined the European
organizations - foundations VW
Union.
Slovakia (non-state), BECEP
→ In recent years the number of
path for life (Ministry of SR)
accidents per year is around
→ Investments in repair and
13500.
construction of traffic infrastructure - investments for the coming six years 3.5 million euros, for example. during recent period was built 80 km highway → As a prevention we use a paper cops, Audiovisual flame, Rumble lines, Feedback speed lines → We also have traffic aducation in schools. → Cycling - developed, cyclists must follow the rules - helmet out of town, and in youthful, reflective elements, preferably used bicycle tracks. When noncompliance fines. → The development of bicycle tracks along SR - begins to steadily increase the number of bicycle tracks
Accidents that changed the law There are no such accidents nor situations. ®
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Poland
they are obliged to pass the local examinations which presuppose the knowledge of the Polish language. → Seatbelts must be worn by both front seat and back seat passengers and it is prohibited to use hand-held mobiles while driving.
Prevention → - tickets and fines, → - internet, tv campaigns
→ Children under 12 are obligated to sit in special child seats that
showing bad accidents or
should be installed on the back
possible dangerous road
seat.
situations → - machines that measure the speed of cars on roads
→ Cars must be equipped with a fire extinguisher, a first-aid kit
→ - signs on roads
and a hazard-warning reflexive
→ - penalty points
triangle
→ - the police controlling drivers in terms of speed, soberity, illegal
→ Drivers are not very cautious
substances, pollution, noise and
and Poland has one of the
technical conditions of cars
worst road accidents statistics in
→ - increasing road safety
Europe.
awareness of children and teenagers at schools
Fun facts → The roads are like swiss cheese. → Permitted alcohol content in blood is 0.2 promilles. → Head lights must be used all year long. → Foreign drivers can use a driving license from their home country or an international driving license for up to six months after entering Poland. Afterwards
Accidents that changed the law → In 2011, there was a bus accident near Warsaw. 18 people died and 1 was injured and there were spots only for 6 people in the vehicle, so this number was excessed 3 times. After that, the law of transporting groups got restricted and the police started
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paying attention to the number of allowed passengers.
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Estonia
Accidents that changed the law Because of lot of speeding and drunk driving the government changed the law that beginner drivers lose their license if they break the law three times
Prevention → There are lots of campaigns about safe driving, crossing the roads in the right place and wearing a reflector that are focused on the prevention of traffic accidents. → The police is checking daily for the law breakers and speeding and all the main roads have traffic cameras. → All the pedestrians have to wear a reflector in the dark all year around. → There are special roads for cyclists and pedestrians all over the country. → There are lots of round abounds in the main roads to control the speeding.
Fun facts → In winter there are ice roads to get to the islands. The speed limit there is 40 km/h and people must not wear a seatbelt. → There is a good helicopter connection between Estonia and its neighbor countries. → In Estonia there is no road fee.
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Road accidents → There is 6000 drunk drivers every day by statistics with the population of 1, 3 million people. → According to the latest statistics there were 1328 road accidents in Estonia in 2015 that included 67 people being killed. 71% of the accidents happened in daytime. The number of deaths is decreasing every year.
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“Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.” ~Author Unknown
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