BANDUNG KLIK HELM

BY VANIA EMMANUELA FROM INDONESIA

In Bandung, where motorcyclists account for 74% of injuries and 69% of traffic-related deaths, this project aimed to reduce head injury fatalities. It focused on two key actions: establishing a "Strapped-Helmet" community group for peer-to-peer monitoring among ride-hailing drivers and students, and reviving the "klikbiarselamat" campaign. The project included installing 50 CCTV cameras at accident-prone areas to monitor and enforce helmet usage, aiming to create safer road behaviours across the city.

ABOUT THE PROJECT LEAD

Vania is a Medical Student at the Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia. She and her team are part of CARS Indonesia: Center for Youth Actions on Road Safety Unpad. Motorcycles are the main choice of transportation in her city. While wearing a strapped helmet is considered a generally simple act, it is ironic that head injury is a major contributor to death in motorcycle accidents. As medical students, Vania and her team want to contribute to reducing the number of deaths due to head injuries in motorcycle accidents caused by the improper use of helmets in Bandung.

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ABOUT THE LEAD ORGANISATION

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Center for Youth Actions on Road Safety (CARS) Indonesia, is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental youth organisation, consisting of students and practitioners in the health field who are concerned about road safety issues. CARS Indonesia focuses its activities on education and advocacy activities to achieve the mission of "Through youths' actions for safer and healthier roads!". Established in 2018, this organisation was launched by the Road Safety Working Group within the Health System Research Center at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia. It has carried out a variety of initiatives, including safe driving campaigns for the public in Bandung via talk shows and roadside awareness and educational media. Additionally, the group served as surveyors for a research project under the Bloomberg Initiatives for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), conducted in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JHIIRU) and the Unpad Faculty of Medicine.