Роль родинного виховання у формуванні культури безпеки дорожнього руху, як чинника підвищення безпеки пішоходів

Abstract

One of the main reasons for the high level of accidents in Ukraine is the low discipline of road users such as pedestrians. Sometimes their behavior is a struggle for an undesirable attitude to elementary traffic rules. Basically, such careless behavior can be observed among young people. Their recklessness and carelessness, both on the streets and on the roads, lead to tragic consequences. Among the two types of dangers that lead to traffic accidents namely the behavioral dangers depend on the traffic culture formed in a certain social environment. The formation of the appropriate level of road users’ culture requires the provision of conditions in the family, in the educational institution, in the workplace, as well as the corresponding socio-economic policy of the state regarding positive effect of safety on the streets and roads. The survey of students shows that only 40% of the respondents are aware of personal responsibility for their own safety. The study revealed that pedestrians’ low level of awareness of their personal responsibility for own safety requires changes in the formation of general safety culture and, accordingly, a road safety culture. Therefore, it is important to encourage young people to take responsibility for their own actions in matters of safety, and the role of family education has a direct impact on the formation of their road safety culture. The main emphasis in the education of children and youth should be on encouraging them to take responsibility for their own actions in any undertaking, and most importantly in matters of safety, in particular, by the parents’ own examples, their consistency in the system of teaching-requirements to the child-own actions. Keywords: pedestrian crossing, pedestrian, traffic safety culture, family education, traffic accident, responsibility.