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View all search resultsPolice teach millennials about road safety through nationwide festival
Nearly 57 percent of the average 30,0000 road accident deaths per year since 2014 have been young adults between the ages of 15 and 38.
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Nearly 57 percent of the average 30,0000 road accident deaths per year since 2014 have been young adults between the ages of 15 and 38. (Shutterstock/iperion)
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o address the high number of millennials involved in road accidents, the generation has become the focus of the police's latest road accident prevention efforts.
Since January, police have held the Millennial Road Safety Festival throughout the country’s 34 provinces, featuring competitions, art performances, marathons and speeches from popular figures.
“We are promoting a moral movement for [millennials] so they will be more cautious about road safety standards. We hope they can become agents for spreading this information,” the National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas) traffic safety director Brig. Gen. Chrysnanda Dwi Laksana said recently.
The event begins with basic education about road safety followed by a training session, turning participants into what Chrysnanda called “master trainers”. After that, the participants are expected to use their knowledge in daily life and motivate others to do the same.
The idea, he said, was inspired by a 2018 Korlantas report that revealed that nearly 57 percent of the average 30,0000 road accident deaths per year since 2014 had been young adults between the ages of 15 and 38.
In Jakarta alone, the age group made up roughly 3,000 of the approximately 6,500 road accident victims in 2018.
“As the number suggests, millennials are prone to accidents because of their habit of using gadgets [while driving]. They ignore road safety standards, which could cause them to break the law or cause traffic accidents,” Chrysnanda said.
