Daily Child Safety Week tips to help you keep your children safe: Friday – Road Safety

This week, running from 21 – 27 June, is Child Safety Week. The campaign comes from the Child Accident Prevention Trust who are aiming to raise awareness of the number of accidents that seriously injure or kill children and how parents can take measures to avoid them happening. 

Friday – road safety
If a child is hit by a car travelling at 40 mph, there’s an 80% chance they will die.  If the car is travelling at 30 mph, there’s an 80% chance they will live.  By allowing a little extra time for your journey you can reduce your risk of hurting a child.

And why not build in a little extra time when you’re out walking with your children, so you can teach them what you are doing and why. This will help them develop good road safety skills, so they can keep themselves safe when they’re older. 

Remember children find it difficult to judge the speed or distance of traffic until they’re at least eight.   So make sure they are never left to cross roads on their own.

Join parents throughout the country and pledge your time with the Child Safety Week Time Pledge and find out how to protect your child from serious accidents.

http://www.childsafetyweek.org.uk/child-safety-week/