Monday, April 13, 2009

Central Meeting of the Traffic Safety Campaign

Prime Minister Taro Aso attended the Central Meeting of the National Spring Traffic Safety Campaign at an elementary school in Tokyo where he participated in a ceremony and traffic safety lesson.

At the ceremony, Prime Minister Aso called for traffic safety in his address to the children, saying, "If you are involved in a traffic accident, you won't be able to study or play together anymore and your family and friends will all feel gloomy and sad. So take care not to be involved in traffic accidents. Not being involved in a traffic accident is important, not only for yourself, but because it concerns your friends and family as well. It is important for everyone to keep their promises and stick to the rules in order to stay out of traffic accidents and also not to become the cause of them."

Prime Minister Aso then handed out traffic safety slogans that he himself had written to the elementary school and the people in the community as a memento. After that, Prime Minister Aso participated in a lesson on traffic safety together with Pipo-kun, the mascot of the Metropolitan Police Department. There the Prime Minister gave advice for pedestrians and the elderly to prevent traffic accidents.

As the lesson changed venues to the schoolyard, Prime Minster Aso underwent training with children at a makeshift street crossing in the schoolyard, where he walked across the pedestrian crossing with children during the green light.