This week the work starts on the school road to Sem school. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has already secured the school children on the team.
“This week starts work on Semsbyveien. The school children will meet construction machinery on their school road. That is why we wanted to focus on the school children and their safety,” says communication advisor Jorun Sætre in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.
She and several from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration are in the gym at Sem school. The fifth, sixth and seventh grades are flowing in. Once in place, students get an explanation of what is going to happen on their school path, and then they are asked:
Do you know what care means?
Clever reflex
The construction work on Semsbyveien is part of the work on E18 from Gulli to Langåker. Pedestrian and bicycle lanes will be built, and other traffic safety measures will be implemented. The students heard about it in the gym last week. They were told how to behave when they see an excavator on the school road, and why it is wise to wear a reflective material. On the way out of the gymnasium, all the children each received their safety vest from the road station. Out in the schoolyard, the children were given a demonstration of what can happen if an excavator driver does not see a child on the road.
Learned caution
“We learned to be careful. And to wear a reflective vest with reflective tape,” says Gift Uhun Amas in fifth grade.
She usually goes to school and was attentive when the excavator driver from contractor Kjeldås lifted the hard guy. Inside the fence stood an exhibition doll, and it was cut down by the guy.
What would have happened if that doll had been a person asked a boy and pointed to the exhibition doll?
“Then he had come to the hospital,” said Jarle Elvestad in Kjeldås.
Seventh graders Julie Knutsen and Ronja Skarresbo say they will look good when they go to school in the future.
“We have been in the school patrol before, so we know a little about road safety,” the two say.