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CHAPTER 3:The school environment and the highway

Road accidents

Accident is something bad which happens unexpectedly involving damage in life and property.

Causes of accidents

  • Excessive speed of vehicles above 80km/h
  • Non respect of highway codes or road signs
  • Drunkenness, tiredness and dizziness leading to loss of concentration
  • Poor states of vehicles moving along the highway, that is vehicles without breaks etc.
  • Making and receiving phone calls reduces concentration while driving leading to accidents
  • Unqualified and inexperienced drivers cause road accidents
  • Poor nature of Cameroonian highway (potholes, narrow roads, sharp bends, absence of road signs and dilapidated bridges) contribute to road accidents

Consequences of road accidents

  • Loss of lives
  • Destruction of vehicles, electricity poles and road side buildings
  • Imprisonment of drivers due to reckless driving that result to loss of lives
  • Suspension of some travelling agencies and drivers through the withdrawal of licenses
  • Injuries from accidents such as fractures wound and bruises.

Measures taken to guarantee road safety

  • Installation of traffic lights at major road junctions; red indicates stop to vehicles, green indicates vehicles to move, yellow indicates vehicles should slow down for they will soon stop
  • Using the traffic police to regulate movement at junctions without traffic light
  • Introductions of radars to check excessive speed
  • Employ traffic wardens to check wrong parking on road
  • Regular control over the deliverance of driving licenses so that unqualified drivers are examinated
  • Always put on safety seat belts while in a vehicle

 

The support of a school institution

It refers to those branches which contribute to the smooth running of the school without necessary being under direct authority of the school administration. They include;

  • Parents, teachers association
  • The school health unit
  • The guidance and counseling service
  • The school management board
  • Ex-student association

 

The school council

Each school has selected bodies of people who ensure that the affairs of the school are well managed. These bodies are called councils, they include:

  1. The disciplinary councils: they act as the school court
  2. The class council: they examine the academic performance of the students at the end of a term
  3. The school council: they oversee the smooth functioning of the school from the point of view of pedagogy, administration finance, moral and infrastructural development
  4. The permanent council: they help in the admission of new students and recruitment of time teachers

 

par Claude Foumtum