April 27^th, 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 all 815 students of Koga Municipal Koga Junior High School in Koga City (Fukuoka Prefecture) on April 23th in cooperation with the Kasuya Police Station in Fukuoka Prefecture.

Since many students at Koga Junior High School commute to school by bicycle, there was a request from the Kasuya Police Station, which wanted to help students understand the necessary traffic rules and manners to ride bicycles safely and raise their awareness of traffic safety. Accordingly, we used an actual truck for hands-on learning about the characteristics and dangers of cars and the prevention of traffic accidents when riding bicycles through intersections and pedestrian crossings. Students commented, "I want to be careful to follow traffic rules and manners when riding a bicycle to avoid traffic accidents. We will continue our efforts to raise traffic safety awareness in order to reduce the number of traffic accidents involving children to the minimum possible.

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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(Traffic safety class using trucks)

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Public Relations IR Office: Attn: Mr. Murata / Ms. Doi
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