Safely home to launch anti drinking and walking campaign ahead of holiday season
With the Holiday Season fast approaching, and the provincial death toll standing at over 1,100 killed so far in 2014, Safely Home will be embarking on a multi-media campaign highlighting the dangers associated with drinking and road use. The MEC of Transport and Public Works, Donald Grant, and Prof Sebastian van As, Head of Trauma at Red Cross Children’s Hospital and Chair of Childsafe, invite you to attend a short road safety workshop, themed “Alcohol, Walking and Driving: A Deadly Combination”, focussed on the deadly effects of road use after drinking. Details of the campaign will be announced at the workshop that will be attended by our various road safety partners with the common goal or making our roads a safer place.
Media are invited and welcome to attend. There will be opportunity for photographs and interviews with presenters at the workshop. Please indicate via email if you will be in attendance.
Venue: Childsafe Woolworths Building, Red Cross Children’s Hospital.
Klipfontein Rd, Rondebosch. GPS: -33.953707, 18.488121
Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Time: 10h00 to 12h00. Refreshments will be served.
Programme:
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10am – 10.10am |
Introduction and Welcome |
Prof Sebastian van As Head: Trauma Unit, Red Cross Children’s Hospital Chair: Childsafe SA |
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10.10am – 10.30am |
Overview: the Global Road Injury Pandemic |
Hector Eliott Strategic Co-ordinator, Western Cape Department of Transport & Public Works |
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10.30am – 10.55am |
Alcohol: the Damage to Society |
Dr Richard Matzopoulos, Senior Specialist at the Medical Research Council’s Burden of Disease Research Unit and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine, and its Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, where he co-ordinates its Violence and Injury Research Programme.
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10.55am – close |
Discussion and refreshments |
Twitter: @WCGovSafelyHome
Website: safelyhome.westerncape.gov.za
Media enquiries:
Siphesihle Dube
Spokesperson for the MEC of Transport and Public Works, Donald Grant
Cell: 084 233 3811
Tel: 021 483 8954
Fax: 021 483 2217
E-mail: Siphesihle.Dube@westerncape.gov.za
