SlogansRoad safety slogans
For Road Safety Week, school rallies, traffic police campaigns and the back of an auto. Short lines on helmets, seat belts, speed and phones.
English
Helmet on, worry gone.
Reach late, but reach.
Your family is waiting. Slow down.
The phone can wait. The road cannot.
Seat belt first, ignition second.
Speed thrills for a second. Regret stays for life.
Red means stop, even when nobody is looking.
A helmet is cheaper than a hospital.
Drive as if your child is crossing ahead.
Two seconds to buckle up. A lifetime to be thankful.
Zebra crossing: the stripes are for people, not for parking.
Give way. It costs nothing.
Do not drink and drive. Call a ride and arrive.
Papa, drive like I am in the back seat. I am.
Two seconds for the belt. A lifetime for the family.
The road is not a race track. Nobody is giving medals.
Look right, look left, look right again.
Wrong side is never the short cut.
Arrive late. Arrive.
हिन्दी
हेलमेट पहनो, सिर सलामत रखो।
घर पर कोई इंतज़ार कर रहा है, धीरे चलिए।
सीट बेल्ट लगाइए, जीवन बचाइए।
गाड़ी चलाते समय फ़ोन नहीं, ध्यान चाहिए।
लाल बत्ती पर रुकना, समझदारी की निशानी।
नियम सड़क के मानो, जीवन का मोल पहचानो।
हेलमेट बोझ नहीं, सुरक्षा कवच है।
पहले आप: यही सड़क की असली तहज़ीब है।
ज़ेब्रा क्रॉसिंग पैदल चलने वालों की है, उन्हें रास्ता दीजिए।
पापा, फ़ोन बाद में, पहले घर पहुँचिए।
सीट बेल्ट दो सेकंड की, ज़िंदगी बरसों की।
उलटी दिशा में मत जाओ, सीधा घर को आओ।
दाएँ देखो, बाएँ देखो, फिर सड़क को पार करो।
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
ਘਰ ਕੋਈ ਉਡੀਕਦਾ ਹੈ, ਸੰਭਲ ਕੇ ਚਲਾਓ।
ਗੱਡੀ ਚਲਾਉਂਦੇ ਫ਼ੋਨ ਨਾ ਵਰਤੋ।
ਪਾਪਾ, ਫ਼ੋਨ ਮਗਰੋਂ, ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਘਰ।
ਪੰਜ ਮਿੰਟ ਲੇਟ ਸਹੀ, ਪਰ ਘਰ ਜ਼ਰੂਰ ਪਹੁੰਚੋ।
ਹੈਲਮਟ ਪਾਓ, ਸੁੱਖੀ ਸਾਂਦੀ ਘਰ ਆਓ।
In common use (not written by us)
Do not learn road safety by accident.
दुर्घटना से देर भली।
तेज़ रफ़्तार, मौत को पुकार।
ਹੈਲਮਟ ਪਾਓ, ਜਾਨ ਬਚਾਓ।
ਕਾਹਲੀ ਅੱਗੇ ਟੋਏ। ਹੌਲੀ ਚੱਲੋ।
Nothing matches. Try a shorter word, or choose All.
Where road slogans are used
Road Safety Week rallies, school gate banners, the back of buses, autos and trucks, driving school walls, and the parking area of offices and societies. The sharpest place of all is the family vehicle: a child's handmade sticker on the dashboard has slowed many a parent down.
Write your own
Road slogans work when they remind the driver of someone waiting. Speed, helmets and phones are the subjects, but the feeling is always home. Choose one behaviour: helmet, seat belt, speed, phone, drink, signal, zebra crossing, or wrong side. Then say who it protects. Keep it short enough to read in the two seconds a driver has.
- English pairs: speed and bleed, belt and felt, late and fate, rule and cool, wait and gate.
- Hindi pairs: रफ़्तार and परिवार, हेलमेट and सेफ़, जल्दी and ग़लती, नियम and संयम, सावधानी and ज़िंदगानी.
- Punjabi pairs: ਰਫ਼ਤਾਰ and ਪਰਿਵਾਰ, ਕਾਹਲੀ and ਖ਼ਾਲੀ, ਸਬਰ and ਖ਼ਬਰ.
For young children
Children are passengers and pedestrians, so give them slogans about their own part: holding a hand while crossing, looking both ways, sitting still in the school van, wearing a helmet on a parent's two-wheeler. Slogans beginning with "Papa" or "Mummy" are the most effective road safety campaign ever invented.
What to avoid
- Gory drawings. They are remembered for the wrong reason, and many schools do not allow them.
- Quoting fines, penalties and accident figures unless you have read them in an official source this year. They change.
- Mocking any kind of driver. Everyone on the road has to get home.
Using these slogans
- The best road slogan names one action: wear, slow, stop, wait.
- For children's posters, use "I" and "my": "My helmet, my rule."