Pattaya Enhances Safety Measures with Realistic Fire Drill on School Buses

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Safety first as carmaker loans students bikes

By JINTANA PANYAARVUDH 
THE NATION 
PHANG NGA 

 

Artitaya Inkaew, far left, and other two students gladly show bicycles they received from the project.

 

FOR YEARS, schoolgirl Artitaya Inkaew’s mother has carried her four children on the same motorbike for eight kilometres from their home to Ban Kuan School in Takua Thung district, Phang Nga province.

 

But now the lives of the five family members may no longer be at risk on the road from the overloaded machines – thanks to a project launched by Mitsubishi Motors Thailand.

 

Entitled “100 years of Mitsubishi Automobiles: riding 100 bicycles to schools”, the project is making available 100 bicycles for underprivileged students, aged under 14, in Phang Nga.

 

Full story:  http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/business/corporate/30302968

 

 

 

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Now the kids can get hit when they ride their bikes home