About 80% of road accidents are noted in the big cities and the 60% -70% of accidents occur at speeds below 40 km / h. This was just one of the many remarks made by the well-known car racing driver Iaveris (Anastasios Markouizos) during his speech on road safety that took place in the hall of the Thessaloniki City Hall “Manolis Anagnostakis”.
“Above all, we must become better people. It is very difficult for a father or a grandfather to go to the funeral of a child or his grandson. No more genocide. Most accidents are stupid. Everyone thinks it will not happen to them. But it is not so. Race drivers after many years of driving and experience dare to say that they know how to drive. Not a new driver who just got his driver’s license. “Every year we have a civil war and hundreds of people are killed, many more are disabled or have many problems until the end of their lives,” he said.
He himself, however urged immediate information not only through schools, but also through the Media. “Finally, there should be a traffic education class in schools. We go to schools as much as we can and inform young children. But we all need to work on this. Children take examples from parents and do what parents do. Always belt not only the front but also the rear passengers, because they have 6-7 times more momentum. “There should be spots on TV, in magazines, in newspapers in order to raise awareness, while the penalties for traffic violations should be toughened.”
The veteran car racing driver referred to the importance of self-esteem and the attention a driver needs to have on the road. “You have to go out slowly. With great care and calm. If you invest, you can build 10 million people who are educated and lead the way. In other words, they should have self-esteem and know that his life, but also the lives of his fellow citizens are valuable. “There are people waiting for him and he is an important person for them.”
For his part, the mayor of Thessaloniki, Konstantinos Zervas pointed out that “driving behavior is high on our agenda. We must do everything to make drivers behave. It’s a huge issue. In recent years, our country has shown an improvement in the field of accidents. But he still wants a lot of work. Infrastructure needs to be improved. Every year 65 people per million are lost. That is, we lose a small village from traffic. The Municipality of Thessaloniki aims in 2030, to reduce traffic in the city center to a minimum. We want to make good bike lanes. We are improving the roads every day, which in the urban complex are a total of 430 kilometers “. The statements of the Deputy Minister of Interior fluctuated in the same wavelength, Stavrou Kalafatis. “The issue is huge and involves many conceptual levels. We give and will continue to give great importance to driving safety. “It is an issue that is high on our agenda”, stressed Mr. Kalafatis.
The authorized municipal councilor for actions of the Municipal Police, Dimitris Daglis stressed that “the municipality of Thessaloniki places great emphasis on traffic education. We want children to get an education and we focus on that. The solution to the problem lies in our hands and feet. “As the Municipal Police, we emphasize traffic education courses and more specifically, we have visited 40 schools and 1,500 students.” Finally, the director of the Thessaloniki Traffic Police, Thomas Germanos, pointed out: “that our goal is not to cut slopes, but to prevent accidents. I have often found myself in an awkward position of informing families about bad events. The involvement of foreigners in accidents is great and many times it has been found that they lack a license, while they have a different culture from the Greeks “.
The event for road safety was also attended by the racing car of the student research team of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Aristotle Racing Team, where a briefing was given on the effort and racing obligations of the team abroad. The event was attended by the Paralympian in swimming, Antonis Tsapatakis and the activist writer, Dimitris Antoniou.
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