According to statistics, more than a million people die every year around the world as a result of road accidents. The UN General Assembly decided to introduce a memorable date - Day of Remembrance for Victims of Road Accidents. Let's talk about it in more detail.
When celebrate
Word Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims - this is the name of the mournful holiday in English, which does not have a clear calendar date and is celebrated on the third November Sunday - World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
The social and cultural role of a memorable date
If such beloved holidays as Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day and others exist to express love and care for your loved ones, then holidays that carry sorrow in themselves are designed not only to remember the dead, but also to draw the attention of society to a specific problem.
The Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims has a deep meaning: with the help of actions people who are not indifferent to the situation on the roads are trying to draw the attention of residents of cities, motorists and pedestrians to the problem of injuries and death during traffic. According to road statistics, injuries resulting from accidents take first place among the causes of death in the age category of up to 30 years. However, most of the dead are pedestrians, bikers and cyclists. According to various sources, the number of victims receiving injuries of varying severity reaches a shocking mark of 50 million. Many people remain disabled, bedridden or strolled.
Scenario for an informative lesson at school
Each holiday has a script; Memorial Day for victims of road accidents also takes place according to its own rules. How is this important and sad holiday going on in general education institutions? Remembrance Day for accident victims, the scenario of which is always about the same, goes according to the following plan:
- First, the teacher reads a poem on the topic of an open lesson and explains to the students the topic of the lesson.
Then the students are given a definition of a traffic accident and the reasons for which there are accidents on the roads. The teacher talks about when the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Traffic Accidents is held and what its main goal is.
- Next, the students are shown a video on a given topic.
- After watching the video there is a thematic presentation.
The thematic presentation includes the following slides:
- The first slide is dedicated to the historical events that occurred on this day.
- The second slide tells about the date in more detail.
- The third and fourth slides are filled with holiday pictures.
- Slides 5 through 7 show UN statistics and are dedicated to the General Assembly.
- The eighth slide is devoted to dangerous facts for drivers.
- The ninth slide is the classification of road accidents.
- The tenth slide - the main factors in a traffic accident.
- Eleventh and twelfth slides - types of violations and facts.
- The thirteenth slide is devoted to accidents involving children and the main factors in them.
- The fourteenth slide is the rating of the places where the most accidents involving children take place.
- The fifteenth slide focuses on the fact that the cause of accidents is often the desire to arrange a competition and show oneself on the road.
- Next is a video for 4 and a half minutes, for example, “Careless taxi driver”.
- District and oblast statistics on traffic accidents involving motorcyclists and scooter drivers.
- From the seventeenth to the twenty-fifth slide, all students are encouraged to be prudent on the road, to respect car drivers, not to cross the road in the wrong places and to the red light, and not to drive the vehicle until they reach adulthood and when intoxicated.
- Next, students are shown stories about retro-reflectors and seat belts for 3-4 minutes.
- The lesson ends with a minute of silence.
Promotions held on this day
Nothing brings people together as much as general grief. On the Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, actions are held to attract the population to road problems.
So the inhabitants of Podolsk that day launched thousands of white balls in memory of those killed in accidents.
Another rally held in one of the Russian schools is the “Tape of memory”. Everyone from the first to the eleventh grade wore a white ribbon on their chest during the day.
In Novosibirsk, schoolchildren and students came up with another symbol of the action - a symbolic figure of a man on asphalt, drawn in chalk.
Similar World Holidays
September 22 is the International Day without a car. The purpose of the holiday is to popularize walks and cycling.