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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’.
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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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