The pedestrian accident mortality rate among children in the age of 14 and 40% about declined in recent years. The injury rate for this same group has declined also by 29%. While this is good news, means that not, that there is still no reason for concern or pedestrian accidents are children using no all too often still occur.

Most children don't really go through to the school. You've probably noticed that school buses to bring very short distances more school children stop. The number of children, which fell on foot to the school by amazing 42 percent. A decline in the pedestrian zone led this lack of walking accidents involving school children and an increase in cases of obesity. As Michelle Obama and other obesity as update problem have focused, is reasonable to conclude that additional measures may be important to go to protect our children, including the creation of safe areas for them. More and more effort is to teach children about the safety of pedestrians, lower speed limits in areas with children, create crosswalks designated more, create walkways and crossing guards if implemented.

The problem

Although the mortality rate among children under the age of 14 due to pedestrian accidents has declined, pedestrian zone remains the second leading cause of unintentional injuries in connection injury death among children in this age group. Studies and statistics show that about 19% of all accident deaths of children under 16 years in connection with pedestrian traffic accidents include. Almost half of deaths in this age group has occurred between 3 pm and 7 am the time window when children most likely traffic will be exposed to.

It is a combination of factors that accidents contribute the high risk of the pedestrian zone with children. A national survey shows that two-thirds of the driver by a school the posted speed of 30 minutes exceed zone before the start of the school and 30 minutes after the school is. Children are also more prone to these types of accidents because they have measured difficulties the speed of the oncoming vehicles, spatial relationships, and distance. Kids develop fully not these kinds of skills until they are about 10 years old. The ability to process information in situations where cars and their dangers exist, is literally beyond sensory and cognitive skills of a child.

Actually, a study carried out in London found that children in this age group between exactly at the age of 5 to 14 not the speed of the car on the road faster than 20 mph. Children who can assess risky things, such as on the other side of the street running in the coming of a car, can do this not because they are inattentive, but because they are unable to make it clear to appreciate or to assess the risk.

Tips for teaching kids pedestrian safety

Young children are impulsive and often act without understanding the consequences of their actions. Means they do things like DART out to oncoming vehicles and run behind parked cars out. They have also an increased risk of other distracted when they should be alert for traffic hazards. If parents focus on the information of their children and safe pedestrian model behavior, parents the risk of their children in a serious accident pedestrians involved can reduce. Parents need to understand children borders and monitor them until they are old enough to fully perceive and appreciate the risk.

Here are some tips:

Always you use safe pedestrian behavior / act as a role model for your ChildTeach children about pedestrian rules and behavior teach them away from the RoadAlways play monitor children under the age of 10, when they the StreetTeach children safe distance at a school BusWalk correctly on footpaths cross crossing are when AvailableTeach you as cross you the street on a pedestrian crossing or corner teach your child, on the edge of stop parking cars, curbs, or other vehicles and see both WaysTeach look children vehicle lighting and listen for engines they always teach to be on their guard

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