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child road deaths double in a year
The number of children killed on Ireland’s roads has already more than doubled this year, new figures reveal. Road chiefs have voiced their worries about the sharp buck in the trend over recent years for fewer child deaths as a result of road accidents. Already this year, 13 children under 14 years of age have died in road collisions, compared to six last year. Six of those who died this year were pedestrians, six were car passengers and one was a quad bike user. Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe said the surge was ‘incredibly worrying’ after many years of decreases in child road deaths. ‘Attitudes to road safety are formed at a young age and we would urge parents and teachers to continue to prioritise teaching our youngest and most vulnerable road-users how to stay safe on the roads,’ he said. The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has urged parents, guardians and
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teachers to make sure children are ‘streetwise’ about road safety as they return to school next week. It is sending 85,500 high-visibility vests to primary schools for every child starting school this year. RSA chief Moyagh Murdock said parents and guardians need to make sure road safety is a top priority. ‘Children are the most vulnerable of our road users so it is really important that they are streetwise about road safety,’ she said. Despite the rise this year, there has been an overall 89 per cent drop in the number of children killed on Irish roads between 1997 and 2012. One in three killed was not wearing a seatbelt or restraint. Some 44 per cent were pedestrians and 42 per cent were travelling in a car at the time. Boys are more likely than girls to be killed on the roads, the figures show.
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PuLP FRicTiOn: People lie in a puddle of squashed tomatoes during the annual Tomatina fiesta in bunol, 50km outside valencia, spain. Trucks dumped 125 tonnes of ripe tomatoes for 22,000 participants to pelt each other Picture: AP