Road Safety

Around 5,000 children under the age of 16 die or are seriously injured on Britain’s roads each year

• Nearly two in three road accidents happen when children are walking or playing.
• Almost two-thirds of child accident victims are boys.
• As a child gets older the risk of a road accident increases.
• A child from a low-income family is five times more likely than a child from a high-income family to be killed on the road.
• Children from an ethnic minority are involved in up to twice as many accidents while walking or playing as the national average.
• The risk of being involved in a road accident when walking or playing is more than 10 times greater for a child with hearing difficulties.

• Know the Green Cross code and safe crossing places on the road.
• Understand risk and the effects of risky behaviour.
• Be able to develop strategies to cope with dangerous situations caused by others.

• Know their responsibilities as a pedestrian, a passenger and a future driver.
• Know about issues affecting young drivers such as peer pressure, speeding, seatbelts, inexperience and overconfidence.
• Have the communication skills that allows them to speak up in potentially dangerous and difficult road safety scenarios to influence a safer outcome.