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Finish, Look, Mind and Call back. Pedestrians crossing Ingram Street, Glasgow
The Dark-green Cantankerous Code is a brand created past the National Road Rubber Committee (at present the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, RoSPA) to enhance awareness of pedestrian road safety in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. The multimedia Dark-green Cantankerous Code campaign began in 1970 and continues today.
The Greenish Cross Code replaced the earlier Kerb Drill (below) pedestrian safety campaign; the Kerb Drill's military manner ("Halt! Quick march!") was deemed confusing to children by safety authorities.
Tufty Fluffytail [edit]
Prior to the introduction of the Green Cross campaign, a serial of puppet animation public information films, featuring Tufty Fluffytail (narrated past Bernard Cribbins) were in regular broadcast rotation across the United kingdom. Tufty Fluffytail, a childlike cherry squirrel graphic symbol, was created in 1953 by Elsie Mills to introduce clear and simple safety messages to children. The success of the character led to the creation in 1961 of the Tufty Club for children under five years of historic period. Under its auspices more than than 30,000 Tufty books nearly route safety were issued to parents. At its peak there were near 25,000 branches of the Tufty Lodge throughout the United kingdom, and by the early 1970s an estimated two meg children were members. The movement continued into the 1980s.[ane]
The code [edit]
The Green Cross Lawmaking itself is a brusk step-by-footstep procedure designed to enable pedestrians to cross roads safely. While the Lawmaking has undergone several changes over the years, the basic tenets ("Finish, Look, Listen, Recall" or "Terminate Expect Listen Alive".) take remained more or less the aforementioned. The 2022 version of the Green Cross Code reads as follows:[two]
- Recollect! First observe the safest place to cantankerous
- STOP! Stand on the pavement near the kerb
- USE YOUR EYES AND EARS! Look all around for traffic and heed
- WAIT UNTIL IT IS SAFE TO Cross! If traffic is coming, let it pass
- Expect AND LISTEN! When information technology is safe, go direct across the road – practice not run
- ARRIVE ALIVE! Go along looking and listening while you cantankerous
Light-green Cross Man [edit]
| Green Cantankerous Man | |
|---|---|
 Take information technology from Dark-green Cross Homo | |
| Beginning appearance | 1970 |
The Dark-green Cross Man is a costumed superhero character created in England in mid-1970 as an aid to teaching young children the Green Cross Lawmaking, and for promoting general road safety via television adverts. British actor David Prowse, who went on to portray Darth Vader in the picture Star Wars (1977), played the character in a series of Public Information Films sponsored by the British Government's Central Role of Information for the Section of the Environment. The original adverts were broadcast on British television receiver from 1975 to 1990.
In the adverts the "Green Cross Human" has the power to teleport from his monitoring station at "Green Cross Control" to whatsoever location where children are in need of pedestrian safety pedagogy. He accomplishes this by use of a wristwatch-like "dematerialiser" device. On these missions he is sometimes accompanied by a robot companion known as the Green Cross Droid. His signature assertion of surprise or disbelief is "Green Crosses!" and his slogan is "I won't be there when y'all cantankerous the road, so always use the Green Cantankerous Lawmaking." The showtime two adverts in the serial had David Prowse'due south voice dubbed by another histrion due to his pronounced Bristol accent.[3] In the third advert he appeared using his own voice.[4]
In 2022 the Green Cross Code Man series was revived, with David Prowse playing the character in his 80th year, in ii adverts produced for Route Safety Week in the Britain.[5] The new campaign was targeted at young adults alerting them to the danger of pedestrian accidents caused by distraction from using smartphones, and wearing headphones to listen to music whilst crossing roads.[half-dozen]
Other campaigns [edit]
In 1976, actor Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor (1970 to 1974) on the television serial Md Who, appeared in a PIF for the Green Cross Code introducing the mnemonic "SPLINK", which stood for:[vii]
- (First find a) Safe (identify to cross, then terminate)
- (Stand on the) Pavement (near the kerb)
- Look (all round for traffic and mind)
- If (traffic is coming, allow it pass)
- (When there is) No (traffic near, walk directly across the route)
- Keep (looking and listening for traffic while you lot cross).
The film was later updated to cartoon form, voiced past Derek Griffiths.[8]
In 1983, the tv set adverts employed a "Green Cross Code" rap based on the hitting "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash. The original lyrics of "Don't button me cos I'1000 close to the edge" were replaced with "Don't step out when you're close to the edge." The advert was re-released for its 10th ceremony in 1993 with slightly dissimilar lyrics.
Other UK celebrities who have appeared in "Dark-green Cross Code" PSAs include Joe Bugner, vocalist Les Gray of the Mud pop grouping, Kevin Keegan, and Alvin Stardust. These adverts used the banner "Be Smart...Be Safety."
Kerb Drill [edit]
The Kerb Drill is a procedure for pedestrians to cross streets safely, developed past Jocelyn Arthur Adair Pickard (1885–1962), a onetime Royal Engineer who became Director-Full general of RoSPA.[9] [ten] As it originated in the UK, it is the opposite direction from countries that drive on the right-hand side of the road. The Kerb Drill encourages pedestrians to expect before they cantankerous:
At the kerb halt!
Optics right,
Optics left,
Optics right again.
If the route is clear,
Quick march—walk direct beyond.
The repeated expect to the right is to cheque again for a car in the closest lane. In countries that drive on the right-hand side of the road, the Kerb Drill would be:
Stop at the kerb. Look left, look right, wait left again. If the route is clear, speedily cross.
Meet besides [edit]
- Highway Code
- Road Casualties Groovy Great britain
References [edit]
- ^ National Archive: Tufty Under v's – Ice Cream Van
- ^ The Dark-green Cross Lawmaking
- ^ 'Light-green Cross Code 1' advertisement (1975), published on Youtube two September 2007. https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=CRUBMBi_lp4
- ^ 'Green Cross Code 3' (1975), published on Youtube 2 September 2007. https://www.youtube.com/sentinel?5=CLeK1LKZKiI
- ^ BBC News: Greenish Cross Code Homo Back On Screen
- ^ 'David Prowse Returns as the Light-green 10 Man', published on Youtube xx November 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXJEiZrbj4
- ^ Public Information Films | 1964 to 1979 | Picture show index | SPLINK – Jon Pertwee | accessdate = four December 2012
- ^ UK Public Information Motion-picture show: SPLINK on YouTube
- ^ Trailer – Kerb Drill
- ^ "Lieut.-Col. J. A. A. Pickard, CBE DSO" (PDF). The Imperial Engineers Periodical. LXXVI: 226–seven. June 1962.
External links [edit]
- Hedgehogs.gov.great britain(The 2005 Green Cantankerous Code website)
- RoSPA
- Call up! Road Safety (UK Department for Transport)
- Official Website of David Prowse
- Public information films from the BBC
- SPLINK!
- The Tufty Club
- The Green Cross Lawmaking Man
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cross_Code
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