ACC conducts Road Safety Programme in Kandy

Automobile Association of Ceylon (AAC) conducted a Road Safety Programme, under ‘UN Decade of Action 2021 /2030’ in the Kandy District, providing helmets to School Children recently, at Maraka Maha Vidyalaya, Matale.

This programme was aimed to educate children, parents, teachers, motor cyclist and may others in the Kandy District on the importance of children wearing helmets, not only to abiding by the law but also to keep safety factor to children in their mind.

The Traffic Police Officers provided vivid lectures and demonstrations on the safety of wearing the helmets to children when they travel with the parents on two-wheeler.

The Traffic Police Officers in Kandy District assisted to obtain the required data of the children from schools in the area who do not wear the helmets when they travel on the motor cycle.

President Dhammika Attygalla, P.B. Kulatunda, Executive Committee Member and Sectional Chairman of the Kandy Branch Office, Y.G. Wedathilaka, Principal of Maraka Maha Vidyalaya, Matale together with the Traffic Police and OIC of the Matale Police Station graced the occasion.