Organized by American University in Dubai traffic awareness campaign in collaboration with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) Company and “Shell” global (Shell) has continued for two consecutive days for the deployment of traffic awareness among the younger generation and to warn them of the risks of speed and reckless driving. Participated in the campaign a large number of students and academic and administrative bodies.

The event was part of a campaign “ambassadors traffic awareness,” launched by the RTA and aims to raise awareness of traffic between the various segments of society. Depending on the campaign characterized the activities applied, it had worked all sides in order to influence the hearts of the students was the most effective means to provide and display devices applied as a device to measure the impact of a fixed body vehicle collision on the speed range 10-12 km / h Seat belt Convincer)) in addition to a Overturned vehicle to demonstrate the impact of lost control of the driver of the vehicle with the participation of the Emirates Institute for the education drive. Also contributed to “Shell” through provision of Formula 3 driver, Basil Shaaban, who in turn spoke about the importance of safety belt use in addition to various topics related to speed.

Suspended Nelly Halabi, Director of the Health Center at the American University in Dubai, saying: “The goal of the establishment of this campaign is to educate young people and warn them of the dangers of speed and the adoption of the theory and concrete examples to illustrate the dire consequences of speed.” She added: “We have lost one of our students last year after a terrible accident due to speed, this is what students pay to participate and belong to the ambassadors of awareness.”

Engineer Hussain Al Banna, Director of Traffic Department at RTA Traffic & Roads: “Traffic management is seeking to build bridges of cooperation and partnership with universities and academic institutions to spread traffic awareness among young people and university students, who traffic statistics indicate that they represent a high proportion of deaths Alhawwadthalmroryp. The Engineer Al Banna : “The program aims to form teams of students under the name” ambassadors traffic awareness “be a link between colleges and universities and traffic management programs to activate the traffic awareness in the community colleges and universities, as well as special issues edited by” ambassadors “of students, The program will also benefit from the capacities and capabilities of teams ambassadors traffic awareness through employment in the field of scientific research and the preparation of studies and questionnaires in the field of traffic awareness. It was stated that the number of students enrolled in the Ambassador Program, traffic awareness through events held at the American University in Dubai reached 58 students. “

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