Road Safety
The Children's Traffic Club
The Children's Traffic Club helps parents teach their children how to stay safe when
they are out walking, playing, travelling in cars or buses. It aims to help reduce
the large number of children who get hurt on our roads every day. The Club is for
3-4 year olds and their parents, to work together through a series of 6 books, full
of colourful pictures to talk about, stories to read and exciting activities to do.
 Visit
the Children's Traffic Club website...
School Travel
On our school travel page, you
can read our Interim School Travel Strategy and find out about
School Travel Plans, Safer Routes to School and the National Walk
to School Campaign.
The Driving Advantage
Find out about - and sign up for - our short
courses for drivers aged 60 and over, designed to help you
continue driving for longer with the minimum amount of stress.
School Crossing Patrols
Road Safety has many aspects. Find out more about how we keep
your child safe on their way to school at School
Crossing Patrols.
Cycling for Youngsters
Cycling is great fun, but a bike is more than just a toy. Find
out how to help your child understand how to keep safe while riding
on the cycling page.
 Road
Safety Plan 2007/08
The Council's Road Safety
Plan 2007/08 (1.16MB, PDF file) sets
out priorities and a programme of work focusing on helping meet these challenging
targets.
More About Us
Every local authority has a duty to promote road safety. Bexley
Council is committed to cutting the number of people killed or
injured on the Borough's roads. It does this by making the roads
safer and by educating road users to use them better.
The Road Safety Unit is responsible for education, training and publicity
covering all ages and all road users. It also runs the school
crossing patrol service (lollipop people) and encourages parents
and their children to walk to school instead of going by car.
In March 2000, the Government set national casualty reduction targets.
By 2010, it wants to achieve, compared with the average for 1994
to 1998:
- a 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously
injured in road crashes;
- a 50% reduction in the number of children (under 16 years) killed
or seriously injured; and
- a 10% reduction in the slight casualty rate, expressed as
the number of people slightly injured per 100 million vehicle
kilometres
 The
Pledge Campaign
On 20 March 2002, the Council launched its latest major road safety
publicity campaign - the Pledge to Drive Safely. You can find
out more and take the pledge yourself. |
