HCM City to teach traffic rules with cartoons

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This set of cartoons includes three volumes, entitled: The city at your convenience, The city in dreams, and Safety, right!

Instead of teaching traffic rules by unattractive traditional methods, the department hopes that those cartoon books will simplify the skills to use traffic lamps, traffic signals, wearing helmets when riding motorbikes, etc. by simple pictures and language, which is suitable for children.

The department will present those cartoon books to children of up to 16 years old, who will attend the Traffic Safety Camp on September 19 at the Zoological Botanical Garden in HCM City.

More than 2,000 students from 40 secondary and high schools in HCM City will take part in this camp, which will have various activities and contests related to knowledge about traffic safety.

This event is part of the second Traffic Safety Month but this is the first time the camp has been organized for children.

“We hope that through this camp, not only children but their parents and siblings will have more knowledge about traffic safety and urban traffic culture,” said Director of the HCM City Department of Transport and Public Works, Tran Quang Phuong.

He said that the Department of Transport and Public Works will combine with the local Department of Education and Training to organize similar camps in all districts and to teach traffic rules at general schools.

According to statistics of the HCM City Traffic Police Agency, nearly 7,000 people were killed in traffic accidents in the south since 2006, accounting for 50% of the fatal cases caused by traffic accidents in Vietnam. Notably, up to 40% of them are less than 20 years old.

(Source: VNE)