Protect children with road safety rules
It is important to remind your children about the dangers and rules of the road.
Many children will be walk to school or use public transport like the bus every day.
It is important to remind your children about the dangers and rules of the road.
According to Arrive Alive, junior primary school children in particular are at high risk of being hit by a car when crossing the street because they:
- Cannot judge the speed or distance of moving vehicles
- Are easily distracted and can focus only on one thing at a time
- Cannot determine the direction of sounds
- Have a visual field that is one-third narrower than an adult’s
- Do not understand how much time and distance is necessary for a vehicle to stop
- Are hidden by parked cars and bushes
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Review with your children the correct way to cross the street. Youngsters should always stop at the curb or the edge of the road and look right, then left, and then right again before crossing. They should continue looking in this manner until they are safely across.
If a student’s vision is blocked by a parked car or other obstacle, they should move out to where drivers can see them and they can see other vehicles — then stop, and look right-left-right again.
