Isakat

If anyone is interested, 26 children died on the Italian roads last year:

Bambini sulle strade, un semestre nero: quest'anno 26 morti, l'8% in più - MOTORI

This is the new Northern Ireland video/ warning, upsetting/ about the fact that
28 children died in NI since 2000.

Shocking Northern Ireland road safety video banned before watershed shows speeding car killing entire group of children - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Patty

Unfortunately this doesn't surprise me Isakat. I see people every day with children in the car, standing up or sitting in the front seat, no seat belts and sometimes sitting on Granny's knee. Mums chatting on their mobile whilst tackling a roundabout with children in the car .....I could go on. The italian government should do a campaign on primetime tv but probably people would take more notice if it was on the Barbara D'urso show....

37100

Mums with kids sitting on front cycle seats and without a helmet in sight.

Isakat

Yep, I remember an accident that happened recently when the only person who died was an 11 old girl and her dog. The others had seat belts on, but she did not and she was thrown out of the car with her dog who was on her lap onto the road.
How can her mother live with this? She was the driver....

Patty

Oh that makes me go all goose bumps when I see that - I know exactly what result even a small impact can have, as my sister was knocked off her bicycle a few years back and almost died.

Its hard to fathom these parents - they obsess about what their kids eat, how many layers of clothes to put on them in the slightest of breeze and yet they put them in cars and bikes with NO protection whatsoever - its very bizarre.

MarkRD

Plus it's not just the parents, it's the bad state of roads, pedestrain 'crossings', lack of proper pavements etc. No-one cares.

..and of course a lack of road sense education with kids .. How many like me had the Green Cross code, and slightly before that the Tufty Club drummed into them as kids??

I was waiting for me pizza last night at the takeaway and saw two kids running back and forth across a fairly busy road, albeit on a zebra crossing, quite happily. I shuddered every time.

Patty

OMG Mark - I had completely forgotten about the Tufty Club
and we also had the cycling proficiency at school to learn about road use.

MarkRD

Yup! Did that one too! .. before the days of cycling helmets mind...

I notice they've added "Think" to the Green Cross road-crossing mantra now..
Stop! Look! Listen! Think! | LearnEnglish Kids | British Council