Road Safety

Road Safety  

In 2009 162 people died in road accidents. 
Since the establishment of the State of Israel 30,000 people have died in road accidents.
Car crashes are the leading cause of permanent injury and death in young drivers.
Each year, more than 1.17 million people die in road crashes around the world.
Sixty-five percent of deaths involve pedestrians.
Thousands of teenagers die and hundreds of thousands are injured needlessly.


Look at the following links from the news:
Car accident on Akko-Carmiel road leaves 5 dead, Ynet 13.5.10
4 killed in Negev car crash - Israel News, Ynetnews 7.3.10
5 dead in 4 separate car accidents , Jpost 6.3.10
Four people killed in car accidents across Israel over the weekend, Haaretz 8.3.08

4 dead in Arava road accident, Ynetnews 09.30.07

Negev: car strikes camel, driver killed, Ynetnews 09.11.07
4 killed as car overturns near Lake Kinneret, Ynetnews 09.13.07
Man killed, 3 injured in road accidents in north, Ynetnews 09.01.2007
4 killed in Galilee road accidents in 24 hours, Ynetnews 08.24.07
2 killed, 1 injured in road accident in south, Ynetnews 08.21.07
Fight accidents US-style, Ynetnews 08.19.07
3 dead in road accidents in north, Ynetnews 07.13.07

What do you feel about the great number of traffic accidents that we have in Israel?

 






A. Statistics in Israel   

The following chart shows the people who died in car accidents in Israel in 2006.
  2006
Drivers 97
Passengers 95
Pedestrians    112
Motorcyclists 33
Cyclists           8
Total 345

Answer the following questions:
1. It is more dangerous to be a pedestrian than a driver
True  
False
2. More motorcyclists died than cyclists
True  
False
3. How many passengers died in 2006?
97
112
95

4. How many people died in 2006?
435

345
354



Read accident stories
In the following link you will read stories about car accidents in which the drivers tell how their accident happens.
You will also see what happened to their cars. Click here to read about accident stories.


1. Which story did you find especially interesting? Explain

 

Share with us
2. Have you ever been involved in a traffic accident?
Yes  

No
 
3. Have you seen a car accident?
Yes  
No 
4. If you were involved in a traffic accident or have seen one, share with us your feelings and experiences
 
Send to the



B. Drinking and Driving 

Millions of people die on the roads, worldwide, as a direct result of drinking and driving;
many others will be disabled for life; some will be unemployed as a result of their crime.
In the U.S. every 30 minutes, someone is killed in an alcohol-related crash. 
Alcohol was involved in 41 percent of fatal crashes and 7 percent of all police-reported crashes in 2001.


1. Do you know who is most at risk of drinking and driving?
Write your guesses here:

2.Check your answers here.
What did you find out?

 

A sobering poem  
Read the following poem about drinking & driving called A Sobering Poem
and answer the following questions:

1. Who is speaking in the poem?

2. What happened to the person?

3. Do you think it's fair? Explain

4.What would you tell your friends if they were thinking of
drinking and driving?
Send to the

To learn more click on this link:
Repeat Intoxicated Driver Laws (PDF)


C. Theory Test

This link will prepare you for the theory driving test click here (Hebrew).
This is another free link that will prepare you for the theory driving test in Hebrew.
Take these mock tests from the UK.
 

D. Seatbelts
Being thrown from a moving vehicle is the number one cause of death in car crashes.
Staying inside the vehicle is your best chance of survival.
Safety belts are designed to keep you inside the vehicle, where there's room to live.   

1. Do you wear a seatbelt every time you are in a car?
Yes
No 

Seatbelts: why you should use them

Always wear a seatbelt

2. Why should you wear your seatbelt?


E. Mini Project

1. Write a fact sheet on road safety
2. Write about what you should do on the road and what you shouldn't do.
3. Display in your English room.
The following links will help you:
car accidents
Road Safety
How to deal with aggressive drivers
Traffic Safety

4. Write your draft here:

 

F. Help your community 

1. What can you do to help your community?
2. Send an e-mail to current Knesset Members urging them to act to prevent death on the roads.
3. Show that you care!!!! Click here
4. Suggest ways to have less traffic accidents.
Send your suggestions to the

5. Volunteer to join the battle against death on the roads. Click here.


G. Bicycles & Cyclists

Learn why you should wear a helmet
In Pedaling Protection, you'll find out many ways to stay safe while riding your bike.

What are the main facts that you learned?

H. Buses
Learn how to be safe on a bus. Click on this link:
Do's and Don'ts

 
I. Fun and Games
Quiz: Road safety
Cycle Safety Quiz
Interactive Flash games- road safety quiz
Safety Quiz
Take an online driving lesson
Road Safety Quiz
Wordfind No.1    No.2   No.3   No.4   No.5   No.6  
No.7
 

J. Story Time
Read the story The Lonely Traffic Light.

What made the traffic light understand that it is very important?


K. Sing these songs
Look Both Ways
Put Your Helmet On
Put Your Seatbelt On
Put Your Helmet on Your Head
Stop, Look & Listen

To print your answers click here:

Name: 
Class:
   
School:

L. Links
Ministry of Transport
Safe and Smiling
Dmoz
Department for Transport
Worldbank

Teachervision
Safezone
Think
Road Safety - a parents guide
U.S. Department of Transport
AMIT Hebrew
Oryarok
Rules of Conduct at the Accident Scene
Safety Links - Kaye College (Hebrew)
Learn to drive (Hebrew)
Edu-negev.gov.il  (Hebrew)

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  Last updated 16/06/10