Links
These folks care about pedestrians, too!

 

Children's Issues

• International Walk to School Day (iwalk)
  The home site for iwalk, held on Tuesday, October 2, 2001, has information and links to organizations around the world that are sponsoring activities. "The ultimate goal is to create a more walkable world community by community."

• National Walk Our Children to School Day
  Tuesday, October 2, 2001. This site has ideas for planning activities and events, registration forms, walking links, and articles about children and walking.

• Active and Safe Routes to School A national program encouraging the use of active modes of transportation to and from school.

• Adult Crossing guards program by the City of Walnut Creek California.

• Safety & Injury Prevention - Pedestrian safety by Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Children's Health System.

• Child Pedestrians. A scholarly literature review by Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center affiliated with the University of Washington. Very interesting!

• Hedgehogs (UK). Resources for child safety campaigns including online games, screen savers and song lyrics (Hedgehogs Stuff) and guidelines for safe travel (Arrive Alive).

• Injury Prevention Web hosted by the California Center for Childhood Injury Prevention.

• Hot!   Is it safe to cross now? Children ages 1 to 19 years are prime victims of pedestrian crashes in Utah and average 17 deaths each year. Child Injury Prevention Program, Division of Family Health Services, Utah Dept. of Health.

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Safety City Safety items, a "Safety Challenge" quiz, lesson plans and other safety activities for children and resources for teachers.

• Pedestrian Safety National SAFE KIDS Campaign is the first nationwide movement to prevent unintentional childhood injury.

• Pedestrian Safety by US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We're so glad you wanted to take a walk with us. Walking is great exercise — you can go almost anywhere on your own two feet. Plus, it's free. But walking can also be dangerous. How can you avoid getting into a crash?

• Pedestrian Safety Poem. Written by Lori Manning, sponsored by State Farm Insurance.

• Road Safety by the UK Department of the Environment, Transport, and Regions. Excellent teaching tools for elementary and secondary students.

Road Accidents are a major cause of death for all children aged between 1 and 15 years. The UK has one of the worst child pedestrian fatality rates in Europe.

• Safe Routes to School Inc. lays out a 10-step process that brings parents,
  teachers and principals together with traffic engineers to identify dangerous locations
  and fix them.

  • California Safe Routes to School Clearinghouse offers support to local groups and public agencies for developing safe routes to school. Their website includes a listing of upcoming conferences and events and a compilation of useful information.

• Teaching Tool to Cut Child Road Deaths Developed in the UK, this Web site holds lesson plans for teachers to use in primary schools to integrate road safety messages into everyday lessons, improve children's safety knowledge and help to
  keep them safe.

• Walkability Checklist. A clever form for kids to use as they learn about pedestrian issues. See also the suggestions for "walk-pooling" as an alternative to carpooling. Try the pedestrian traffic signal quiz. A great site by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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