Elementary school students wear safety vest on the bus

That's all right if the heavy school bag standing in middle school bus. Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! What happens if the driver in safety vest has to brake suddenly? The recent students know now exactly. You have witnessed such a harmless knapsack can be quite dangerous.

The lesson with the consequences of an emergency stop is part of the curriculum of the bus school. This in turn is a very special kind of traffic education. The kept the two traffic police inspection educators Samberg, Police Chief Inspector Herald Hotelman, in the first and second grade students of primary schools in the city and county.

The bus school is primarily intended to contribute as a traffic education project to make trips in public transport for children and young people safer. The concept includes a roughly 25-minute theoretical, but also a 20-minute practical classes. In theory it was a danger to the bus stop and on the way there. What can go wrong here, the elementary school students themselves have developed. Now you know: You may here not push, wrestle, or play catch like - because otherwise it could easily happen that a child runs onto the roadway or crashes.

How important it is to wear bright and reflective clothing to be clearly visible to other road users, was as subject as not to jostle when boarding the bus of the appeal. How it's done correctly, the children have practiced: They went beautifully arranged and sat down on the bus always equal to the next free space - without blocking the satchel gear or seat - remained while driving sit and held on tight. And of course they always use from now on the seat belt, if there is one.

What happens in an emergency stop?

The theory is one thing - especially impressive is the thing but if you can try out what they have learned the same: This option provided the bus school for elementary school students. Who experienced a short drive what happens in an emergency stop? And showed clearly why you should not put in the aisle of the bus his schoolbag: The satchel slipped through the braking maneuvers by the driver. The children were pushed forward - which made all for a great wow factor. The bus school in Samberg by the company Linz and in the district by the company Herrmann, Lindner, Fuehrer, Heffner, Bruckner and Bayer and Krauss, who put their buses free of charge, was supported.

Overall, the bus school has 59 classes visited with 1,332 children. This special traffic safety training was also part of a crossing guard training with two transition classes of Leopold Middle School Samberg.