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| About the Road Safety Council | Publicity | Education | |
| Legislation and Enforcement | Road Safety Funding | Non-governmental Organisations | |
| The Way Forward | Annex | Acknowledgement |
EducationSafety Through EducationEducation and publicity are very important in raising road safety awareness among the public. The Council performs its vital role to educate the public about road safety by identifying focal points, initiating curriculum-based programmes, creating course tools and coordinating the work of other community stakeholders. This multi-agency approach is particularly effective in wide-ranging community education initiatives across all age groups. The concerted efforts of government departments, non-governmental organisations, District Councils, schools and community centres produce a range of road safety education initiatives. Lectures and seminars are given by the Police to various groups and organisations at venues including the Road Safety Bus, Road Safety Towns, schools, centres for the elderly and other community venues. The messages delivered are tailored to specific groups and audiences. For example, road safety tips for the elderly were published and disseminated via the radio phone-in quiz, and cycling training courses were delivered to students to improve their riding skills and road safety awareness. In addition, Road Safety Bulletins, prepared by the Transport Department, are to disseminate road safety advice and messages to all road users to raise their road safety awareness and enhance understanding of traffic regulations and rules. The Road Safety Bulletins are regularly distributed to various stakeholders via district offices, driving schools, public libraries and through other publicity channels. The Road Safety Bulletins are available on the Transport Department’s homepage (www.td.gov.hk/en/road_safety/road_safety_bulletin/index.html).
Youth EducationThe Road Safety Towns are owned and managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, while lectures on road safety are delivered by Police Road Safety Teams. The towns transform road safety education into an enjoyable experience, especially for the young and the elderly, in a pleasant and comfortable environment. The towns attracted more than 50,000 visitors of all ages in 2017. They are popular destinations for kindergartens and primary schools, as well as clubs, social service groups and elderly service organisations. Open days with interactive games and performances are regularly held to promote road safety themes. Hong Kong’s Four Road Safety Towns are:
The Road Safety Bus delivers road safety messages to students at schools, residents at housing estates, children at youth centres and old people at elderly centres. In 2017, the bus received more than 12,000 visitors, underscoring the valuable role it plays in road safety education. In addition to raising road safety awareness and developing good practice, we continue to reach out to young people through various media platforms, including YouTube.
School EducationA holistic school curriculum comprising knowledge, skills and values/attitudes is provided for students in accordance with their developmental needs. It aims to nurture in students positive values and attitudes – including responsibility, respect and care for oneself and others, civic awareness and being law-abiding – to support their development as responsible and considerate road users. From pre-school education, students learn how to protect themselves and develop basic safety habits and awareness. Learning elements of road safety education, including understanding and complying with safety regulations, cycling safety, proper use of public transport and common causes of traffic accidents are incorporated into the school curriculum such as General Studies at the primary level and Moral and Civic Education at both primary and secondary levels. To promote road safety education, schools can make use of learning and teaching materials, including educational television programmes and lesson plan exemplars provided by the Education Bureau and web-based resources provided by the Council. Learning and teaching resources on Road Safety have been uploaded to the website of the Moral, Civic and National Education Section of the EDB (www.edb.gov.hk/cd/mcne). In addition, corresponding life-wide learning activities such as the Hong Kong Road Safety Patrol and Safe Cycling Training Programme are conducted to broaden young people’s sense of road safety and strengthen their proper road-use habits. Through participating in the above activities, students develop positive values and behaviour in road use and become responsible road users personally and socially.
With the continuing growth in the popularity of cycling for short distance travel, as well as recreational, environmental, health and other reasons. The Council, the Police and the Transport Department have promoted cycling safety through a variety of publicity and educational activities. As cycling becomes widespread in Hong Kong, we will continue to boost our efforts in this area. Major recent undertakings have included:
Driver Safety EducationIn order to enhance awareness of road safety and foster good driving behaviour, the Driving Improvement Scheme has been provided since September 2002. Pursuant to the Road Traffic Ordinance and the Road Traffic (Driving-offence Points) Ordinance, drivers who have been convicted of a serious traffic offence or who have accumulated 10 or more Driving-offence Points (DoPs) within two years are required to attend a driving improvement course provided by a designated driving improvement school. The course is also open to eligible drivers. After satisfactory completion of the course and fulfilment of other conditions, participants have their DoPs reduced by three. In 2017, about 25,600 persons attended the course. Within six months after completion of the course, about 93 per cent of them did not incur new DoPs. A new set of TV and radio APIs was launched on 4 December 2017, reminding drivers to drive attentively particularly at road works. A Road Safety Bulletin, Know More about Traffic Lights, was published to remind drivers of the rules when driving through signalised junctions, including the meaning of various traffic signals and the use of ‘right-turn pockets’ located there. In addition, a Road Safety Bulletin, Safe Driving on Expressways, was published to disseminate safety rules and tips on the use of expressways and strategic routes. Drivers’ particular attention are also drawn to the necessary precautionary action when they encounter temporary traffic arrangements for roadworks on expressways. ‘Driving Inattentively’ has been the top driver contributory factor in traffic accidents for the past five years. In order to change the undesirable behaviour of drivers who cause accidents, HKPF formulated the Selected Traffic Enforcement Priorities 2016 to enhance drivers’ awareness of their responsibility toward the safety of every road user around them. Elderly Pedestrian Safety EducationIn Hong Kong, elderly pedestrians remain especially vulnerable to road accidents. The Council continued to focus many of its seminars, campaigns, bus parades, road safety messages and publicity and educational programmes on this demographic group, emphasising proper road use and crossing technique. In particular, we continue to broadcast the television API on elderly pedestrian safety, reminding the elderly to ‘Love Yourself, Love Your Family, Be a Smart Pedestrian’. The Council also worked closely with Senior Police Call to conduct education in areas with a higher occurrence of traffic accidents involving elderly pedestrians to remind the elderly to use proper road crossing facilities. The Elderly Pedestrian Road Safety Quiz Competition, co-organised by the Council and RTHK 5, was broadcast on RTHK 5 from July 2017 to January 2018. A music video called Be a Smart Pedestrian was produced as the theme song of the quiz competition to promote road safety messages to the elderly. The song was widely heard among the elderly segment of society and was watched many times on the RTHK YouTube channel. Forty teams from elderly centres across Hong Kong were invited to join the competition and Senior Police Call members were engaged as road safety ambassadors. The 2017 campaign attracted much attention from its target audience among the elderly. The Council will continue to make use of the RTHK Radio 5 channel to promulgate safety messages to the elderly in 2018.
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| The Way Forward | ||||||||||||||||||
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