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Students return to schools, but authorities neglect the safety infrastructure on the way there

In a discussion held at the subcommittee on road safety, the RALBD raised alarming data according to which 65% of the sampled schools have safety deficiencies. At the same time, an 80% cut was made in the budget of the municipal safety staffs. "

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• Boaz Toporovsky

Keenan Cohen

Sunday, 29 November 2020, 20:14

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In the video: 400,000 high school students return to school (Photo: Yotam Ronen)

The Road Safety Subcommittee, chaired by MK Boaz Toporovsky (Yesh Atid), discussed this morning (Sunday) the state of safety infrastructure and the field of traffic education in schools, against the background of discussions regarding the continued opening of the education system to more students. budgeting and infrastructure maintenance.

44 children and teenagers up to the age of 19 have been killed this year in road accidents, which are the main reason for child mortality and youth. educational institutions are considered the danger zone, the central area of the safety of children and teenagers. But the data as points arising from sampling of the road safety Authority , Raises a very difficult picture of the conduct of the state and the authorities, with an emphasis on gaps in Arab and ultra-Orthodox society.

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44 children and teenagers were killed this year in road accidents.

Lack of safety railings at a school in Ashkelon (Photo: Harlev ")

"65% of the schools sampled have safety deficiencies, which make it difficult to reach schools safely," says Snir Seidel, director of the operations division at the National Road Safety Authority.

He emphasizes that "in the Arab sector, the situation is more difficult: deficiencies have been found in two-thirds of the schools, and in some institutions there is no infrastructure that allows safe access to schools at all. Only 40% of the deficiencies identified are corrected."

However, this gap is largely due to the poor budgeting of those risk areas.

The Ministry of Transportation allocates NIS 25 million annually for safety in the vicinity of the schools, an amount of about NIS 150,000 on average for the authority - very far from what is actually required.

On the other hand, there are authorities that do not use the amount allotted to them to complete the deficiencies.

In response, the committee's chairman, Toporovsky, announced that he should be given a list of authorities in whose territory there are still deficiencies.

All this while private enterprises have difficulty finding official funding. Like the "Hug and Travel for Peace" initiative, which allows students to be safely dropped off at the school entrance Accompanied by volunteers, which is very successful, praised by the professional bodies and school principals, and costs a few thousand shekels, all of which reinforces the impression that the entire field lacks an accompanying, supervising and integrated body that knows how to gather all factors (local authorities, Ministry of Transportation, Education, Israel Police And private organizations) to carry out operations in the field.

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"Only 40% of the defects detected are repaired."

A broken sidewalk near a school in Ashkelon (Photo: Harlevad)

MK Matans Shehadeh (joint list), told the committee that the problem in the Arab sector stems from overcrowding and uncomfortable access to schools, resulting from improper allocation of resources. The director of the Road Safety Division at the Ministry of Transport, Max Aviram, argued that emphasis is placed on safety education in the authorities. Arabity.

MK Michael Malkieli (Shas) said for his part that "when it comes to road safety, we also need to train in non-state institutions.

My kids don’t get road safety lessons.

Why? "In response to this claim, the Ministry of Transportation said that the difficulty of integrating content into the ultra-Orthodox education system, unsupervised, often stems from difficulties posed by the directors of the institutions themselves.

During the committee's discussions, Topaz Peled, director of traffic engineering, revealed three new signs. In the process of approval and will soon be placed near educational institutions: a place for picking up and dropping off passengers, the area of ​​educational institutions and the edge of the area of ​​educational institutions.

The signs are part of an overall move to improve road safety in educational institutions.

The new signs

"Israel ranks first in the OECD in the rate of children killed in road accidents."

Kita cedar

The new signs are part of an overall move to improve road safety in educational institutions, which will be completed by a curriculum designed for hundreds of thousands of students in grades 1-2, fifth and tenth grades.

The latter will be able to take a theory test that passers-by will be exempted from for three years from having to take another test before being issued a license.

Aviram also introduced a new pilot for high school students, designed for traffic education for proper handling of bicycles and electric scooters.

However, Operations Officer in the Traffic Division of the Police, Lt. Col. Yossi Sharvit, said that "because of the corona our instructors can not teach road safety in schools, we asked to exclude them, but we did not respond." , But clarified that "without guidance in the area itself, near the roads, it is not possible to promote the training of Zahav shifts."

The director general of the Green Light Association, Erez Kita, presented an alarming picture. "The State of Israel is in first and worst place in the rate of children killed in road accidents among OECD countries. Every year, an entire classroom is deleted.

"A child will always behave like a child, and will break into the road unintentionally. Instead of blaming the children for road accidents, the infrastructure should be adjusted so that even if a child makes a mistake and breaks into the road, the driver will stop or at worst hit him at low speed," he said. And turned to the heads of the authorities and said that they "must install deceleration lanes in a high concentration environment of children, it can make the difference between life and death. In simple actions we can prevent the next dead child".

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