Back-to-School Means Everyone’s Eyes Need To Be On The Road

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The Walk This Way program offers the following tips for back-to-school safety:

Teach your child to look and listen every time they cross the street.
Teach by doing. Be a good role model by walking with your children to school and demonstrating safe pedestrian practices – crossing only at intersections, stop signs and crosswalks.
Always cross with younger children. Children under the age of nine lack the developmental skills to cross the street on their own and should be accompanied either by an adult or by responsible older children.
Reduce your driving speed. The higher the speed, the higher the risk of injury, or even death, to a child pedestrian. In fact, pedestrians have less than a 50 per cent chance of surviving a collision if struck by a car travelling 50 km per hour or more, but a 90 per cent chance of survival if the car is travelling 30 km per hour.
Eliminate distractions. Cellphones and other electronic devices should not be used when walking across streets or driving.

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