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On December 1 (Sunday) at 12:30 am in the conference hall of the BTA - Vidin a pressconference will be organized by "Open Youth ".
It will also be attended by representatives of the District Administration – Vidin, the District Directorate of the Ministry of Interior - Vidin and "Tsar Simeon Veliki" secondary school. The occasion for the event will be the signing of a contract for the donation of training equipment for road safety education of the smallest citizens of Vidin from "Open Youth" to "Tsar Simeon Veliki" secondary school.
The event itself will launch a training series among the students of the school, thereby improving their road, and in particular pedestrian, safety. The trainings are scheduled to take place on 2 and 3 of December and will be carried out by representatives of "Open Youth ". They will involve children:
- from 5 to 10 years for which the donated equipment will be used;
- from 10 to 14 years for which a specially designed weight calculator, showing everyone how heavy his/her body is in a collision with a given speed (50, 90 or 130 km/h) and distract-a-match game will be used;
- from 14 to 19 years for which a driving simulator, recreating risky driving situations and alco- and drugvision goggles, simulating vision under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and what is the effect on human capabilities will be used.
The initiative will be carried out within the project “Road safety in South East European regions” (ROSEE), which is supported by the European Union South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme.
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