Welcome to 2012, a year full of promise and lots of incredibly exciting activities for road safety across the world! On January 1st, many people make an extra effort to uphold new year commitments and resolutions. We want to get active, lose those extra pounds gained during Christmas, quit smoking, make more time for friends and so forth. This year, why not include a road safety new year’s resolution? Its easy and something that requires commitment for years to come; to be safe on the road, be a road safety ambassador and to preserve life.
Today, most people are back into the working routine and have shaken themselves off from the holiday slumber and are ready and fresh to embrace the new year with open arms and high hopes.
While our new year goals of personal endeavour have been listed and ready to be ticked off throughout the year; at YOURS – Youth for Road Safety, we request that you add one more resolution to your list; to be a road safety ambassador! Some goals might be unrealistic; we might not climb Mount Kilamanjaro or run every marathon this year (some of you might do!), we might not become the world’s biggest popstar or have a beer with the President but there are things we can do that are realistic, measured and ensure that we can continue striving for these magical moments that may happen one day. If we’re not here then how will we ever know?
This year, add road safety to your new year’s resolution, its an easy step to take and will ensure that you are safe on the road from now on. We know its probably not one of the most exciting new year’s resolution to take this year but think about this, if your life is ruined by a road crash, if you are seriously injurred, disabled or even killed then how will you tick off all the other resolutions this year?
You can be an ambassador for road safety by taking these simple steps and commiting to them for the years to come!
You can also show your support by joining the facebook page 10 Road Safety Commitments, initiated by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crecent and show your are committed to road safety.
Simple steps can help us survive incase of a road crash but also we can be safe as any kind of road user to ensure we preserve our lives for many years to come!
We wish you all a very Happy New Year and know that you will join us in making road safety a lifelong resolution!