Between September and December 2016, the county council, in partnership with the Road Safety and the prefecture, is organizing a new campaign in the safety of school transport for the 6th of students in safety vest across the department. This falls under the departmental plan Transportation Department and its school transport security policy.
During the 2015 campaign, it is 6000 6th of students who are loaned to exercise. The animation happens in two stages. The first part consists of a theoretical presentation of half-time by a representative of Road Safety. The speaker in reflective vest will remember the basic safety rules of commuting and stopping secure bus, the behaviors in the waiting school bus, during the rise and installation in the vehicle during the trip and fall with the usual precautions to cross the road when the bus is stopped or after his departure.
The second part is a practical demonstration. Two drills in a car, with gradual difficulties calling for help, unlocking doors … At the end of session, it is offered to college kids a thematic strip and a plate of information with best practices.
Compulsory yellow jacket
Addition to awareness campaigns, the Manche county council has made wearing the compulsory yellow vest since January 2014 for all users pupils of a school transport circuit or of a regular department. The Department presented during the school year this year 6000 yellow reflective jackets for new students of the 74 schools served by bus.
NOTE:
If a child is not wearing a seat belt, it is the parents who pay the fine.