Teh One Who Knocks
09-06-2016, 12:06 PM
By Rachel Bishop - The Mirror
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Topless women have been sent onto the streets in a bid to force speeding drivers to slow down.
The bizarre idea has been launched by a road safety campaign in Russia - which claims it is the best way to reduce speeding.
The half-naked women - dressed in thigh-high boots and pants - have been parading around an accident blackspot carrying speed limit signs.
And it seems to be working as traffic approaching the pedestrian crossing in Severny village, on Russia's Novaya Zemlya island, has significantly slowed down since.
And surprisingly there were no reports of accidents caused by drivers being distracted.
Despite it's slightly controversial approach it has also won backing from elderly pedestrians, who were terrified to cross the road before.
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The experiment dates from 2013 but the idea has been revived as part of a new national debate on reducing the 30,000 a year deaths on Russia's roads.
Road safety campaign Avtodrizhenia staged the trial and said that "most speeding drivers, the majority of whom happened to be men, slowed down to admire the female road safety assistants," according to a report.
The topless women held signs warning of 60 and 40 kilometres per hour.
Elderly pedestrians were grateful for the bizarre method, claiming they took their lives in their hands each time they use the designated road crossing.
"Drivers do not let us cross," said one female pensioner.
"Some of them do but many others just fly past.
"They even shout at us - 'why are you walking here?' Can you believe it?"
One of the models who stripped off for the experiment said: "Our drivers usually do not slow down when they pass a village or a settlement even though there are speed limit signs by the road.
"So we have to make them do it."
A male driver said: "It's a super thing, amazing.
"I'd like to see more of this by the road, and yes I looked at speed limit sign this time. It will teach other drivers too."
Igor Mikhailushkin, head of the regional police press service in Nizhny Novgorod region, where the experiment took place, said: "We have organised similar installations this and last year trying to make the drivers obey the speed limit.
"But I must say our girls were dressed more than these women."
International comparisons show Russia's roads as among the most dangerous in the world.
http://i.imgur.com/sPBNXKx.jpg
Topless women have been sent onto the streets in a bid to force speeding drivers to slow down.
The bizarre idea has been launched by a road safety campaign in Russia - which claims it is the best way to reduce speeding.
The half-naked women - dressed in thigh-high boots and pants - have been parading around an accident blackspot carrying speed limit signs.
And it seems to be working as traffic approaching the pedestrian crossing in Severny village, on Russia's Novaya Zemlya island, has significantly slowed down since.
And surprisingly there were no reports of accidents caused by drivers being distracted.
Despite it's slightly controversial approach it has also won backing from elderly pedestrians, who were terrified to cross the road before.
http://i.imgur.com/fbMcHSQ.jpg
The experiment dates from 2013 but the idea has been revived as part of a new national debate on reducing the 30,000 a year deaths on Russia's roads.
Road safety campaign Avtodrizhenia staged the trial and said that "most speeding drivers, the majority of whom happened to be men, slowed down to admire the female road safety assistants," according to a report.
The topless women held signs warning of 60 and 40 kilometres per hour.
Elderly pedestrians were grateful for the bizarre method, claiming they took their lives in their hands each time they use the designated road crossing.
"Drivers do not let us cross," said one female pensioner.
"Some of them do but many others just fly past.
"They even shout at us - 'why are you walking here?' Can you believe it?"
One of the models who stripped off for the experiment said: "Our drivers usually do not slow down when they pass a village or a settlement even though there are speed limit signs by the road.
"So we have to make them do it."
A male driver said: "It's a super thing, amazing.
"I'd like to see more of this by the road, and yes I looked at speed limit sign this time. It will teach other drivers too."
Igor Mikhailushkin, head of the regional police press service in Nizhny Novgorod region, where the experiment took place, said: "We have organised similar installations this and last year trying to make the drivers obey the speed limit.
"But I must say our girls were dressed more than these women."
International comparisons show Russia's roads as among the most dangerous in the world.