Children in Galway are trained to control traffic and help their school mates to cross the road.
Supported by the National Road Safety Association the scheme was launched last year to train primary school children in road safety drill. To date over eleven hundred children are involved with junior warden work in thirty towns and cities around the country,
They've become first class traffic wardens.
Three Galway schools have joined the scheme, and teams from Scoil Éanna in Salthill and the Holy Trinity and St Michael's Schools in Mervue who have been trained by local Gardaí ensure their classmates can cross the road in safety. A junior traffic warden tells RTÉ News,
You help the little ones across the road...there's a lot of traffic around.
Eamon Doyle from the National Road Safety Association is very pleased with how the service is operating to date.
Traffic accidents are almost ruled out.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 April 1979. The reporter is Jim Fahy.
