A traffic safety class was held in Ono Town, Gifu Prefecture, where elementary school students could get on the driver's seat of a dump truck and experience the "blind spot" of the car in order to be careful of accidents caused by large vehicles.
This class is held every year at a local elementary school by the Ibi Police Station, which has quarries and factories in the area and many large vehicles pass through. On the 26th, about 260 children from Ono Municipal Higashi Elementary School participated.
The children first got into the driver's seat of a large dump truck and confirmed that a traffic cone about 70 cm high, about the same height as the child, was placed around them but could not be seen from the driver's seat.
Next, a demonstration of the "inner ring difference" in which the rear wheels pass inside the front wheels when the car turns is performed, and it is necessary to pay particular attention at the intersection to see how the triangular cone that the front wheels did not hit gets caught in the vehicle. I was learning.
After the demonstration, the children were instructed by police officers not to stand by the road when waiting for a traffic light at an intersection and to check the surroundings without turning their backs on the road.
A 6th grade girl said, "I understand well that I can't see a nearby child from the driver's seat of a big car. During group school attendance, I will be careful while supporting other children. I was talking.