DfT child road safety strategy 2007

The UK government has a target to reduce by 50% the numbers of children aged 0-15 killed and seriously injured in the UK, by 2010, compared with the average for 1994-1998. The Department for Transport (DfT) child road safety strategy 2007 looks at measures to improve child road safety under six different themes: education; training and lifelong learning; publicity; highway engineering; environment and planning; vehicle engineering and secondary safety; legislation and enforcement; and school journeys. The strategy outlines 20 specific actions for the DfT and partners for improving child road safety, building on existing work. The priorities for these actions are to promote child pedestrian training e.g. Kerbcraft, to promote good practice in road safety education; to encourage local partnerships that deliver coordinated road safety activities; to provide road safety messages to children and other road users, through the Think! campaign to encourage the use of parents and peers in delivering road safety messages to children; to encourage the wider use of 20mph zones, and to coordinate road safety and school travel activities.

• Corporate Authors:

  Department for Transport, England

  Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street
  London,   England  SW1P 4DR
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 72p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Children; Education; Federal government; Improvements; Pedestrians; Policy; Prevention; Publicity; Safety; School trips; Speed limits
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 1758: Child; 2284: Education; 183: Government (national); 9108: Improvement; 622: Journey to school; 1733: Pedestrian; 173: Policy; 8573: Publicity; 1665: Safety; 624: Speed limit; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01076177
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 18 2007 10:06AM