Center for the Complete Management of Mobility in the City of Granada in English
IV Intergenerational Conferences in Road Safety
On 12 November 2015 they were celebrated the IV Intergenerational Conferences of Elderly and Young People in Road Safety.
These Conferences are organised by the City Council of Granada through the Educational Center in Road Safety of the Mobility Area, Spanish Red Cross and the Official School of Psychology.
The opening of these conferences was run by the Council of Citizen´s Protection and Mobility of the City Council of Granada, Maria Francés, the Vice President of Red Cross ,Sergio Díaz and the Vice Dean of the Official School of Psychology Manuel Vilchez.
This workshops were teached by the Educational Center in Local Road Safety. Contents dealed about risks that every age involve in road accidents and that they depend on their psycho - physical abilities and stile of life of each age, but above all can be prevent with an adequate information and training in it, aim of these Conferences.
- Elderly: distractions, loss of mobility and reflexes, degeneration of their psycho physical abilities, medication effects, state of mind...
- Young people: necessity of assertiveness, insecurity, sensibility to their group influences, types of risky diversions due to alcohol or drugs, addictions to media devices of their generation: mobile phone, gps... that cause distractions when driving.
This workshop, shows how to compensate certain risks in each group focused on PREVENTION of these accidents. There have been used projections aimed to both groups with a following dialog between them to give one each other advice in a very friendly way between elderly and young people..
They have been given instructional material specially designed for both collectives: notebooks about the effect of drugs in driving for young people and notebook with advices for elderly about how to compensate their impairments in Road Safety in their displacements as pedestrians, travellers and drivers.
Center for the Complete Management of Mobility
Delegation of Citizens Safety and Mobility.
City of Granada
