September 15th, 2022
Fukuyama Transporting Co., Ltd. (Head office: Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture; President: Shigehiro Komaru) and the Komaru Koutsu Foundation (Chief Director: Shigehiro Komaru) held a traffic safety class for 380 students of 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders at Gifu Municipal Yanaizu Elementary School in Gifu City (Gifu Prefecture) on September 12th.
Yanaizu Elementary School is located near an industrial park and faces an arterial road with heavy truck traffic. In response to the school's request to prevent traffic accidents with large vehicles on their way to and from school, the traffic class provided hands-on learning experience with the characteristics and dangers of trucks about preventing traffic accidents at intersections and pedestrian crossings. The children commented on how the experience strengthened their awareness of traffic safety, saying, "There were many spots where we could not see from the driver's seat, so we will not play around the truck.”.
We will continue our efforts to educate children about traffic safety in cooperation with the police and local governments so that even one traffic accident among children will decrease in the future.
Komaru Koutsu Foundation was founded on September 9th, 2013 to promote traffic safety awareness, hosting various traffic safety lectures in Elementary schools across Japan and carrying out educational activities to prevent traffic accidents. Overseas, it holds Japanese composition speech contests to provide opportunities for students to present the results of their Japanese language studies and to promote cultural exchange with Japan and also raise awareness of traffic safety that is relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) we support.
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(Blind spots experience in the driver's seat of a truck)
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