In the Angara region, the preventive operation Attention children is underway, aimed at reducing child injuries on the roads and adapting schoolchildren to the traffic environment. Despite a 25 percent drop in crashes involving children, the situation remains tense. Since the start of the year in Irkutsk, 66 children were injured in accidents, one child died. Police are conducting raids, talks with parents and teachers, and in early September traffic police posts will be set up near schools by the roadway.

The all-Russian preventive operation “Attention – Children!” is underway in the Angara region. The purpose of the campaign is to reduce child injuries on the roads and help minors adapt to the traffic environment.
Compared with the same period last year, the number of traffic accidents involving children has decreased by 25%. However, despite the decline in accident rates, the situation on the city’s roads continues to remain tense.
As the head of the Traffic Police Department of the Russian Interior Ministry for the city of Irkutsk, Ilya Podvoyny, said at a press conference, since the beginning of the year 66 children have been injured in traffic accidents in the regional center, and one child has died. As part of the campaign, traffic police officers and juvenile affairs inspectors are conducting raids and preventive talks with parents.
Police officers, together with the state interdepartmental commission, also checked the readiness of general education institutions in the regional center for the new school year. The deficiencies identified in schools must be eliminated by August 31. Inspectors conducted briefings with the teaching staff of the educational institutions on preventing road incidents involving children. For the youngest road users, lessons on studying traffic rules will be organized from the beginning of the school year. In addition, to help schoolchildren adapt, from September 1 to 11 traffic police posts will be set up near general education institutions located close to the roadway.
Based on materials from the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Irkutsk