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Road Safety: What to teach
56 Community News Road Safety: What to teach and age-appropriate messages: Part 2 By the age of fi ve, children are ready tolearn, in addition to Part 1: • The Green Cross Code (fi nd a safe place to cross, stop, look, listen, cross with care, looking and listening all the time - see below) • The safest places to cross: underpasses; footbridges; where there is a crossing-patrol (lollipop) person; traffi c light crossings; zebra crossings. • In a car, only get out on the pavement side. • In a bus or coach or minibus, wear your seat belt if there is one. When getting off , never cross the road in front or behind the bus. Wait until it has pulled away so you can see in all directions. The Green Cross Code • Find a safe place to cross • Stop just before you get to the kerb • Look all around for traffi c and listen • If traffi c is coming, let it pass • When it is safe, go straight across the road - do not run • Go to the THINK! website to read the full Green Cross Code with more detailed advice. By the age of 9 and upwards, depending on development, children are ready to explore: • The impact of road crashes, injurie and deaths on families. • The responsibilities of drivers to protect other people, especially people who are on foot or bicycle. • The dangers of giving in to peer pressure to take risks. What to teach to teens Students aged 11-20 may initially think that road safety is for younger children, or boring. But most young people have a lot to say about road safety and won’t fi nd it boring as long as it’s taught well. In fact, eff ective road safety teaching with these age ranges enables you to explore challenging and worth-while issues, including: • Death and bereavement, and especially the impact of sudden, violent and ‘man-made’ bereavement, such as through road death. Lifechanging injuries (such as paralysis and brain injury) and how this aff ects people and their families • Taking responsibility for others in the context of good citizenship - particularly if driving • Society’s obsession with motor vehicles, the eff ects this has on
communities (safety, health, pollution, social interaction, costs), and the alternatives to driving • The diff erences in levels of risktaking among males and females, and young drivers and older drivers • Alcohol and drugs – including alcohol and drug use among young people, and how this links with the issue of drink and drug driving There are a number of reasons that students may not initially be receptive to road safety teaching. For example, they may: • Think they ‘know it all’ and road safety is for ‘babies’ • Already be taking risks on roads (for example, mucking about on busy roads, driving without a licence or taking illegal drugs and driving) • Feel invincible - road crashes happen to someone else, not them. They think their youth and fast reaction times will keep them out of trouble • Have a misunderstanding of the true extent of deaths and injuries on roads and just how at risk they are as young people. However, young people are likely to have witnessed risky behaviour on roads and grasp road safety issues easily as they deal with roads every day. They also may well have experienced, or heard of, someone in their community being hurt or
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57 killed in a road crash, and therefore understand that death and serious injury is a reality on roads. Eff ective road safety teaching for this age range should: • Build on students’ existing knowledge and experiences, not preach • Require students to think for themselves and conduct original research • Be discussive and creative, and related to students’ real lives • Involve real-life projects (such as devising and running a campaign to get parents and students to ‘belt up’) not just class-room learning • Explore the dangers and consequences of risk-taking, and the benefi ts of making safe and sustainable choices Visit charity Brake’s website here: www.brake.org.uk/ info-and-resources/resources/ guide-to-teaching-road-safety
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