Traffic accidents involving kids fall in Hull

Date: 10/5/2011

Over the last 20 years, the number of child casualties recorded on Hull roads has declined by three-quarters.

According to the BBC, the city council has revealed that there has been a 75 per cent fall in the number of young people hurt or killed as a result of a crash in the last two decades.

In the early 1990s, there were 183 casualties under the age of 16 on the city's roads, but by 2010 this had dropped to 46, with the local authority pointing to its pedestrian safety courses for seven to eight-year-olds as one reason for this result.

The training was introduced in Hull schools during 1992 and involves discussions on where the safest places to cross are, the consequences of not taking this precaution and an outdoor exercise where pupils are shown how to negotiate different types of crossings.

Paul Goodwin, Headteacher at Buckingham Primary School in the city, tells the media corporation: "I know parents [teach them] all the time; they do a fantastic job, but this is just reinforcement within school and especially when they're around their peers."

The charity Brake sent its mascot Zak the Zebra to Langley Vale in Surrey yesterday (May 9th) as locals called for improved safety measures on Beaconsfield Road where Vale Primary School is situated.

Posted by Sarah Bailey