The ‘Road Safety Education in the Balearic Islands’ (EVIP) programme is organised by the Directorate General of Emergencies and the Interior and the Consell de Mallorca to make children and young people aware of the importance of knowing how to move safely in the street.

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Road safety education programme

The second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca and councillor for the Environment, Rural Affairs and Sports, Pedro Bestard; the island director of Sports, Toni Prats; the director general of Emergencies and Interior of the Govern (GOIB), Sebastià Sureda; the director of the Institute of Public Safety of the Balearic Islands (ISPIB), Vicenç Martorell; the coordinator of the Road Safety Education Programme of the Balearic Islands, Llucia Pons; and the mayor of Costitx, Antoni Salas, visited one of the stops of the ‘Road Safety Education of the Balearic Islands’ programme in Costitx today.

Almost 200 primary school pupils have taken part in the Consell’s ‘Suma’t’ workshop in the municipal sports centre of Costitx, which has been converted into a children’s traffic park as a didactic resource and an example of preventive education. It will move around various parts of Mallorca to provide guidelines for mobility, both on school trips and in other situations. During the 2024 school year, a total of 3,400 children from 11 towns and 25 schools will participate.

To carry it out, the Institute of Public Safety of the Balearic Islands (ISPIB), which depends on the Directorate General of Emergencies and Interior of the GOIB, sets up road parks and organises talks with the local police in schools, in this case with the Sencelles Police, with the aim of bringing road safety and urban mobility education closer to the students of Mallorca. The Consell de Mallorca provides support in the form of material and monitors.

The contents taught by the police include a review of signposting and basic traffic rules, with a practical mobility circuit. They also cover a range of issues, such as whether minors can use scooters, motorbikes or mopeds as passengers, and what preventive measures they should follow when riding a bicycle.

Councillor Bestard stressed that ‘this programme, in which various institutions are involved, is very necessary, because it promotes safe mobility among children with a practical circuit. The aim is to ensure the safety of the journeys they make, both on foot and on board different vehicles’.