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The 11,000 area kids who visit Windsor’s Rotary Children’s Safety Village every year will be learning much more than how to survive a house fire or how to obey the rules of the road on their bicycles, thanks to the work of two UWindsor business professors.
Anne Snowdon and Diana Kao, both from the Odette School of Business, are working with the safety village to develop new programs to expand the village’s current mandate and to educate children about everything from Internet safety to first aid and bullying.
The Insurance Bureau of Canada recently presented a cheque for $5,000 to the village to support road safety programs and Snowdon accepted the donation on behalf of the board.
One of those road safety programs involves educating people on how to reduce impaired driving, including fatigue and cell phone use. According to the insurance bureau, drivers talking on cell phones are four times more likely to crash. Road crashes continue to be the leading cause of death of young Canadians
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