OPERATION LIFESAVER CANADA CONGRATULATES TWO CANADIAN WINNERS

Canadian children win prizes in ILCAD rail safety drawing contest: http://www.operationlifesaver.ca/general/2013/04/canadian-children-win-prizes-in-ilcad-rail-safety-drawing-contest/

April 17, 2013 Categories:  Events, General, Train Safety Tips

Two young Canadians recently won honours for their rail safety knowledge in ILCAD’s third annual international drawing contest for children.

More than 500 entries were submitted for the contest by children around the world. After the almost 2000 public votes were tallied, the top ten drawings in each category were recently announced. Among the winners were two Canadian children.

Four-year-old Mia Cinquino of Saint-Constant, Québec won second prize in the age 4 – 7 category. Mia’s  mother says Mia drew her picture because her grandfather worked for Canadian railways for most of his life.

Mia Cinquino’s winning drawing.

In the 8 – 12 age group, eight-year-old Allen Zhou from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, won tenth prize for his depiction of motorists waiting safely at a level crossing with double tracks.

Allen Zhou’s winning drawing.

 Congratulations Mia and Allen!

All of the winning drawings are displayed on the ILCAD website and will be used during the ILCAD 2013 campaign. They will also be exhibited at the United Nations in Geneva during the second UN Global Road Safety Week (May 6 – 12, 2013).

This contest helps to raise awareness about the risks for both pedestrians and motorists at level crossings. It is part of the International Union of Railways’ (UIC) efforts to encourage people to “Act safely at level crossings,” the motto for International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD).

More than 40 countries, including Canada, will participate in ILCAD 2013 on May 7th to help educate people about rail safety. Why not share the winning drawings with the children in your life and encourage them to create their own?

Do your part to keep the rail-safety message top of mind for everyone, because playing around trains can be deadly.

3rd UIC/ILCAD DRAWING CONTEST FOR CHILDREN ON LEVEL CROSSING SAFETY CLOSED

 

 

 

 

 

 

The voting process for the drawings competing in the 3rd UIC/ILCAD international drawing contest for children on the occasion of ILCAD to be held on 7 May is now closed. We have received about 2000 votes within 2 weeks!!!

The competition was open to children everywhere (including those of UIC HQ colleagues and UIC members’ staff) and were divided into two categories: from 4 to 7 years old and from 8 to 12 years old.

Here are the results of the contest below:

In the category 4 to 7 years old

The winners are:

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Wiktoria Lukowiak 7 years Poland – 1°
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Mia Cinquino 4 years Canada – 2°
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Vennela Sreenivasa Mukunda 4 years India – 3°
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Kuba Halberda 5 years Poland – 4°
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Sergey Sergeyev 7 years Russia – 5°
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Viktor Rusov 6 years Bulgaria 6°
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Nikodem Baltaza 5 years Poland – 7°
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Fabian Purkot 6 years Poland – 8°
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Weronika Rostkowska 5 years Poland – 9°
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Adam Losiewicz 4 years Poland – 10°

In the category 8 to 12 years old

The winners are:

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Rajashree Choudhury 11 years India – 1°
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Zofa Porado 9 years Poland – 2°
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Ella Christina Feketeova 8 years Slovakia – 3°
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Jennifer Sanchez 10 years USA – 4°
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Oliwia Kakol 12 years Poland – 5°
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Anna Nabzdyk 12 years Poland – 6°
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Matilde Lagido 11 years Portugal – 7°
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Iza Maliszewska 12 years Poland – 8°
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Sviatoslav Mareev 11 years Russia – 9°
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Ana Tiric 11 years Croatia – 10° a
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Allen Zhou 8 years Canada – 10° b

This third edition has met again a great success with more than 500 drawings (+25% compared to 2011):

  • 272 drawings in the 4-5 years category
  • 245 drawings in the 8-12 years category

from different countries mainly Poland but also India, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, France, Hungary, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain and U.S.A.

I take this opportunity to thank all the participants, teachers, parents and railway colleagues for their excellent response and their contribution to the success of this contest.

The winning drawings will be uploaded on www.ilcad.org, on our facebook page and will be visible in an exhibition dedicated to ILCAD taking place a whole week from 6 -12 May 2013 at the United Nations in Geneva during the 2nd UN Global Road Safety Week taking place in all UN regions.

For organisational reasons all the winners will receive their prize as soon as possible after the International Level Crossing Awareness Day campaign.

Save the date of ILCAD on 7 May 2013 at the UN in Geneva

You are all kindly invited to take part in the ILCAD 2013 international press conference organized together with a round table with experts from different countries and sectors (road, rail, institutions and specialists in human factors, in education…) to take place at the UN in Geneva on 7 May 2013 (see programme using the links hereafter). Among others Mrs. Eva Molnar, Director, UNECE Transport Division will open the event.

For more information and registration click on http://www.unece.org/trans/roadsafe…

SEE 2012 RESULTS

SEE 2011 RESULTS

Save the date for the 5th edition of ILCAD: 7 may 2013

Since 2009, the UIC has been coordinating the International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) campaign running under the motto “Act safely at level crossings”. The UIC, representing the railway community worldwide, has been working with a small but growing number of road sector organizations, the European Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), in order to raise awareness among road users and pedestrians of the risks at level crossings and to change their behaviour. More than 40 countries around the world were engaged in ILCAD 2012.

This campaign proceeds from an uncomfortable statistic: too many people die or are injured in accidents at level crossings. However, though the majority of these are due to misuse by motorists and pedestrians, the popular misconception is that these accidents are a railway problem. Conferences on the issue show that the only really effective way to decrease the number of accidents, short of closing all level crossings, is education, highlighting the risks and making people aware of the potential consequences if they do not follow the simple rules of the road.

As requested by the United Nations General Assembly, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations regional commissions are organizing the second Global UN Road Safety Week to raise global, regional, national and local awareness about Road Safety issues, with particular attention to pedestrians. This will take place worldwide in each UN region from 6 to 12 May 2013.

Following the enthusiasm shown by many ILCAD partners to join the Global United Nations Road Safety Week it has been decided to organise ILCAD 2013 during that particular week. Among other events taking place at UNECE in Geneva that week, the 7th May should be dedicated to ILCAD 2013.  This will include a round table with representatives from rail- and road safety specialists and authorities, education-, human behaviour and enforcement specialists, UNECE member states, the EC, together with an exhibition to display ILCAD partners’ activities. ILCAD partners may organise their own events on 7th May or during the whole week in their respective country.

Building on the successes of the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, the ILCAD 2013 (International Level Crossing Awareness Day) will then focus on the principle date:
7 May 2013.

You may join free of charge as all activity is on a purely collaborative basis and help the railway community to reduce this level of operational risk that we face at the interface with the road sector.

if you wish to join please contact: fonverne@uic.org ; visit www.ilcad.org