Mobile phone, failure to comply with
signage and pedestrian facilities ... 75% of parents admit to risky behavior
when accompanying their children to school. The local government has been
advocating the inserting of reflective fabric element on school uniforms and
schoolbags to enhance the visibility.
In this week back to school, it is time to
lead by example. According to an Opinion Way poll commissioned by the group
Insurers Prevention, many parents whose attitude would not be a model for road
safety: 75% of them admit indeed have risky behaviors with their children in
the street, in the school and educational trips.
For five years, 2500 pedestrians were
killed. Less visible and especially unaware of the danger, children under 15
are particularly prone to road accidents: in 2012, 2,500 young people were
injured and 35 were killed.
Whether the numbers of highway safety and
those of the present study, the numbers are alarming. Especially since
pollsters interviewed a sample of 1,009 people representative of the French
population.
Mobile phone, or the new scourge of the
past five years. If phone use while driving increases the risk of accident by 5
, write a text message ... multiplied by 23! However, there is not only leading
the laptop less alert parents: they readily acknowledge it hard to do without
it, even when they are supposed to supervise their children on the sidewalk.
Thus, 58% of respondents said they walk the
phone glued to his ear, 42% say writing or reading text messages and 23% walk
even with their laptop in hand ... to play, read or review applications. The
smartphone is a new risk factor with which to be reckoned according to the
president of Insurers Prevention Nicolas Moreau, because "in everyday
life, people are not necessarily aware of the danger of such behavior.
"Indeed: only 14% of respondents recommended the nanny to drop his phone to
fully ensure the safety of the child they have given him.
"Do what I say ... but certainly not
what I do! "
Six out of ten parents are unable to
provide the route themselves, and must rely on family or if a nurse to take
over. If parents surveyed allow some variance with their children on the way to
school, they reveal much more anxious and demanding when they entrust their
children to others.
54% and provide safety to meet, including
cross at crosswalks: 64% recommending it, even though the majority of them
(54%) say they do not always follow the rule literally.
Walking on the sidewalk is also a
requirement for 52% of parents surveyed, while over a third (37%) admit to walk
on the floor with their little one.
And if we start now to set an example?
The safety of our kids through the
education they receive at home. And if we take good resolutions for the fall?
Here are some tips that are easy to apply ... and that can change everything.
Children mimic the behavior of their
parents, then lead by example!
Start learning about road safety from 3
years: not to run on the sidewalk, locate the white stripes of the crosswalk,
waiting for the "little green man" look left and right before
crossing ...
Emphasize the process "to stop,
observe and cross" even on pedestrian crossings: one third of pedestrians
killed on the road were killed on a pedestrian crossing in theory.
Finally, increase the visibility of your
children wear safety vest with reflective fabrics, so they will be perceived
harms more than 150m by motorists, against 30m.
If the summer is still the deadliest for
motorists and two-wheelers, pedestrians are especially vulnerable from November
to February for reasons of visibility. Enhance your and your children’s
visibility by inserting reflective fabric into your clothing and bags.
On these boards, Chinastars wish you a
great return at chinastars.org.cn... especially rhyming with security.
