Big demand for road safety packs; DRIVETIME.ORDERS for Road Safety Week action packs have been flooding into the offices of Brake, the road safety organisation that co-ordinates the event in the UK. To date, 2,181 primary schools, 511 secondary schools and 277 companies have requested the packs to help them run events during Road Safety Week, May 1-7, and raise awareness of how to be safe on the road. Brake has produced the action packs with sponsorship from tyre Tyre (tīr), ancient city of Phoenicia, S of Sidon. It is the present-day Sur in Lebanon, a small town on a peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean from the mainland of Syria S of Beirut. manufacturer Continental Tyres, motorway services provider Granada Granada, city, Nicaragua Granada (gränä`thä), city (1995 pop. 74,396), W Nicaragua, on Lake Nicaragua. It is Nicaragua's third largest city and the center of commerce on Lake Nicaragua. , Green Flag motoring assistance and supermarket supermarket Large retail store operated on a self-service basis, selling groceries, produce, meat, bakery and dairy products, and sometimes nonfood goods. Supermarkets were first established in the U.S. during the 1930s as no-frills retail stores offering low prices. chain Sainsbury's. The packs contain leaflets, posters, stickers and CD-ROMs from a range of road safety experts as well as ideas from Brake on what to do during Road Safety Week. In preparation for Road Safety Week, Brake's volunteers around the country will be asking drivers about their driving habits in a 30-question survey, sponsored by Green Flag. Seventy Brake volunteers, representing the number of people killed on UK roads every day, will be gathering on an unopened stretch of motorway in Manchester Manchester, city, England Manchester (măn`chəstər, –chĕs'tər), city and metropolitan district (1991 pop. 397,400), NW England, on the Irwell, Medlock, Irk, and Tib rivers. on March 24 for a Road Safety Week poster poster, placard designed to be posted in some public place for purposes of commercial announcement or propaganda. Advertising makes wide use of posters, as do charitable and political organizations. photo-shoot. |
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