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Stop at crosswalks! School starts Monday in Vaud, most of Valais

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:00:29 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss safety council, BPA, is putting up 1,400 posters around the country and police are increasing their presence near schools and crosswalks to remind drivers to stop for children on foot and on bicycles. School starts Monday 22 September in canton Vaud and in most of Valais, with Geneva starting a [...]

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Geneva police giving safe cycling tips this week

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:49:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva police are calling it PréDiRe Cyclistes, a week-long focus on bicycle safety and road etiquette from 20 to 24 June, with the police officers involved using bikes themselves. Cyclists who don’t respect the rules of the road can expect to be stopped and given a lesson plus a cycling guide published [...]

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Stricter road safety rules picked up by parliament

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:19:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss parliament may move on tougher road safety measures before a new popular initiative has a chance to be put to the vote, with the upper house voting in favour of measures to clamp down on excessive speeders and to ban alcohol consumption for truck and bus drivers. The lower house [...]

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French to crack down on drunk driving, speed on roads

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:19:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com New Swiss road safety review shows men 18-24 at risk for serious accidents caused by speed, alcohol France says 1 in 10 accidents due to cell phone use Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – French road safety officials meeting in Paris 11 May agreed to a series of radical changes to crack down on speeders and drunk [...]

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Three-month license ban for drivers who follow too closely

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:04:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Ban on commercial radar alerts part of new system UK motorist driving on left causes serious accident in St Gallen Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Drivers who follow other cars too closely on highways are committing a “serious” and not a “moderately serious” crime and should have their drivers licenses lifted for three months, the Swiss [...]

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School crossing guard hit by drunk driver as children watch

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:23:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 63-year-old school crossing guard in Vouvry, at the eastern end of Lake Geneva, is in stable condition with head injuries after she was hit by a car and dragged by it at 13:10 Monday afternoon, 6 September. She was conscious when she was taken to the nearby Monthey hospital. The [...]

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Reminder to drivers: Valais kids head back to school

Laila Rodriguez — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:20:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Parents and children in canton Valais are getting ready for school. Students in Haut Valais began classes Monday 16 August while children in the French-speaking part of the canton start school Monday 23 August. School opens in Vaud as well 23 August while canton Geneva prepares for a 30 August back-to-school [...]

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Bicycle safety campaign begins in Geneva

Laila Rodriguez — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:12:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Swizterland (GenevaLunch) – Bicyclists being stopped by the police will be a sight more frequent than usual next week in Geneva. In the wake of a series of bicycle accidents, including a fatal one, the police department has announced it will rev up its “PreDiRe Cyclistes” safety campaign from 21 to 25 June. The [...]

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Irish drivers: 2/3 now against drinking, driving

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:11:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Irish have made a sharp u-turn in attitudes towards drinking in driving in the past 10 years. The Road Safety Authoritiy (RSA) in its annual run-up to St Patrick’s day festivities in Ireland carried out a survey that shows 65 percent of those polled now believe “that there is simply no amount of alcohol [...]

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Nez Rouge ready for party season

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:31:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The time has arrived for the annual Christmas party reminder: don’t drive if you plan to drink. The limit in Switzerland is 0.5 per 1,000, which means about one glass of wine. That said, Christmas parties, at the office or elsewhere, often catch people by surprise, and if you have one [...]