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Question
Your school has arranged for a road safety campaign, Share a few ideas with your classmates which can be used during the campaign. For example ‘Speed thrills but kills’.
Solution
The following are some interesting slogans to be used in the road safety campaign.
- Drive as if every child on the road is your own.
- A spill, a slip, a hospital trip
- Start early, drive slowly, reach safely
- An accident would cripple your income
- Safety protects people
- Safety starts within you
- Risk prevention is better than cure
- Drowsy driving is impaired driving
- Fast drive’ could be the last drive
- Don’t lose your head to gain a minute, you need your head Your brains are in it
- Hug your kids at home but belt them in the car
- Safety first because accident last
- Chance takers are accident makers
- Accidents hurts but safety doesn’t
- Speed kills, slow down
- Be cautious, nearly 40% victims in road accidents are pedestrians
- Sober up, drunk driving kills
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