18.03.2010.
The safest drivers in the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces
The Defence Minister, Dragan Šutanovac, with his assistants and associates, attended the 2009 Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces Safest Drivers Proclamation Ceremony. Within the efforts to increase the safety in the military traffic, motivation and promotion of safe drivers, the Safest Drivers Proclamation Ceremony was held for the sixth time in a row in the Department for Material Resources of the Ministry of Defence, for the safest drivers in the past year in the categories of non-commissioned officers, civilians and professional soldiers.
Based on the criteria adopted at the session of the Council for Safety of the Military Participants in Traffic, held on 16 January 2006, that flattering award for the year 2009 was granted to the Staff Sergeant John Medojevi? from the Special Brigade, who passed 56,462 kilometres without an accident, Slaviša Krsti? from the Army Command, with 67,680 kilometres passed, and the Corporal First Class Saša Ili? from the Central Logistics Base, with 43,315 kilometres passed without a traffic accident.
- This activity shows that the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces pay attention to people who cross hundreds, thousands, even millions of kilometres in military vehicles, Minister Šutanovac said. Wishing to further upgrade the safety of military traffic, we must clearly underline that a military participant in traffic is the member of the Armed Forces even when he is in his civilian clothes. Those members of the Armed Forces members who behave inappropriately in traffic, whether they are in uniform or in civilian clothes, should be fined, and those who behave in accordance with the regulations and who pass hundreds and thousands of kilometres without an accident while performing their regular job, should be rewarded, which is performed through this action. It is very good that in the last year we did not have any death cases caused by traffic accidents in the Serbian Armed Forces and that the safety of military traffic is being increasing, which is certainly the result of many years of efforts put by the Human Resources Sector of the Ministry of Defence to increase the prevention activities in the military traffic. In this sense, all the members of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces who did not have a traffic accident during the past year deserve the recognition, said Šutanovac.
Speaking of the military road traffic safety in 2009, Colonel Željko Rankovi?, Head of the Department for Transport in the Department of Material Resources, MoD, said that the number of accidents in which the military drivers participated decreased compared to the previous period and that there were no accidents with a fatal outcome. The rewards to the safest drivers in 2009 were handed over by the Assistant Minister for Material Resources Ilija Pilipovi?.
