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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’.

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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’.

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The following are some interesting slogans to be used in the road safety campaign.

  1. Drive as if every child on the road is your own.
  2. A spill, a slip, a hospital trip
  3. Start early, drive slowly, reach safely
  4. An accident would cripple your income
  5. Safety protects people
  6. Safety starts within you
  7. Risk prevention is better than cure
  8. Drowsy driving is impaired driving
  9. Fast drive’ could be the last drive
  10. Don’t lose your head to gain a minute, you need your head Your brains are in it
  11. Hug your kids at home but belt them in the car
  12. Safety first because accident last
  13. Chance takers are accident makers
  14. Accidents hurts but safety doesn’t
  15. Speed kills, slow down
  16. Be cautious, nearly 40% victims in road accidents are pedestrians
  17. Sober up, drunk driving kills
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Chapter 6.1: On the Rule of the Road - Speaking [Page 182]

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Chapter 6.1 On the Rule of the Road
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