27/09/2017

Promoting children safe transport in Salto

On Wednesday 27th September, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. in Av. José Batlle y Ordóñez and Av. Blandengues (near Salto Shopping Centre), Salto’s Municipality and the Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez organized a Check Up Point providing advice on the installation of Child Restraint Systems (child seats and/or boosters) in private vehicles.

The Check Up Point is a space in which Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez technicians certified in Child Passenger Safety verify the correct installation of the Child Restraint System (CRS) free of charge.

Training for enforcers

Prior to the Check Point, on Tuesday 26, Salto’s enforcement bodies, composed of Inspectors, Traffic Officers, the National Traffic Police and the Naval Prefecture were given a workshop on Child Passenger Safety by technicians from the Fundación.

Children transport on motorcycles

Also on Wednesday 27th, but at the Córdoba Palace, the Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez Research Coordinator, Florencia Lambrosquini, presented the Inter-Institutional Board with information on the transport of children on motorcycles in the province, based on information collected in the "Study on the conditions of children’s transport on motorcycles in Latin America."

This unprecedented study conducted by Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez in collaboration with the World Bank, the CAF-Latin American Development Bank, the UPS Foundation and the Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory (OISEVI), included 45 cities in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.

Through these activities, Salto’s Municipality and the Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez, with support from the State Insurance Bank, aim to promote the safe transport, in all its forms, of the children in the province.