Road safety - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1969 - 5 Pfennig

Traffic Safety The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic supports the competition "Attentive and considerate, I'm in it!" To prevent road traffic accidents by issuing four multicolored postage stamps. Increase in road safety Increasing road safety as a societal concern is decisively influenced by the traffic safety activites of the companies and schools, the traffic safety working groups of municipalities and residential areas, and the motor sport clubs of the General German Motorsport Association. In addition, many thousands of citizens of the German Democratic Republic work as volunteers for the traffic police, and others, as instructors for the training of road users, make their experiences available for a broad knowledge transfer. Due to economic requirements and the increasing individual needs of the population, a further consolidation of road traffic will occur. The formation of socialist behavior among all road users must therefore be achieved as planned. The efforts of the state organs and social organizations as well as of all citizens to increase road safety thus fit into the process of creating the developed social system of socialism. All efforts in 1969 are aimed at further reducing the still high number of road accidents, because they endanger the life and health of citizens, damage social and personal property and disrupt and hamper the regular fulfillment of transport tasks , The goal can only be achieved if all road users deliberately and actively contribute to increasing traffic safety through their behavior. The concern of the special postage stamps on the subject of "traffic safety" should be to focus on some areas of traffic accident occurrence. Pedestrians cause nearly 20 percent of all road accidents. Inattention and negligent crossing of the roadway are particularly noticeable. The pedestrian should therefore - especially in busy streets - only at designated points (pedestrian protection, crossings for pedestrians) cross the road. This gives the driver the opportunity to adjust to pedestrian traffic. This problem is indicated by the 5 penny value.