School crossing guards in the coburg district are on hand early in the morning

For more than two years, markus puls has been standing at the crosswalk near the untersiemau school every morning. He wants to help the young schoolchildren get to class safely. He spends 30 minutes every day at the start of school, riding his bicycle in all weathers, and has never regretted it.

Markus puls and florian baer qualified for the district competition in munchberg. Marie muller from lautertal middle school came in 3rd place. Place.

A total of eight students from the three middle schools untersiemau, sonnefeld and lautertal had qualified for the district decision in a preliminary test, informed traffic educator volker monch from the coburg police department. The police superintendent was pleased that these school crossing guards had voluntarily taken on their service for the good of the elementary school children. "School crossing guards are the first step to becoming traffic cadets."

Much was asked

In addition to a theoretical part of the examination, this district decision also involved estimating speeds. On the former BGS site, the students had to estimate the speed of a passing bus, a motorcycle and a car. Further was "spursinn in demand for estimating distances. In the theoretical test, general education questions and questions from traffic law had to be answered. In addition, a reaction test had to be passed.

School crossing guards protect their fellow students in traffic and stand at dangerous spots, emphasized police director joachim mittelstadt. They have also been involved in volunteer work beyond their normal school activities. No accidents have yet occurred in the areas where crossing guards are deployed. Mittelstadt: "the deployment of the school crossing guards is having an effect." The schools made an important contribution to traffic safety. It was important to thank the school crossing guards for taking on a volunteer position and doing it in all kinds of weather. Early in the morning they had to be wide awake at critical points, keep an eye on the traffic and also react quickly.

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