Children can learn to cross roads safely

Each year one million people die and 10 million are injured on the world's roads. A systematic review including 15 controlled trials, 14 of which were in children, by Duperrex and colleagues (p 1129) shows that safety education for pedestrians improves children's knowledge of how to cross roads safely and changes their observed road crossing behaviour. The effect on injuries to pedestrians, however, is unknown. The authors found no trials that focused on other vulnerable groups, such as elderly people, and none of the trials were conducted in low income or middle income countries.


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Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Olivier Duperrex, Frances Bunn, and Ian Roberts
BMJ 2002 324: 1129. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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