Best Practice

Traffic: Keeping students safe outside the school gates

Pupil wellbeing
News of an increase in road accidents near to schools hit the headlines earlier this year. Sarah Mir and Tony McLoughlin look at what schools and parents can do to help keep students safe on their way to and from school.

The AXA RoadSafe Schools report 2013 highlighted the worrying number of road traffic accidents that occur on roads in the vicinity of schools. 

The report’s findings include evidence that:

In 37 per cent of local school areas, at least one child sustained a road injury each year from 2006 to 2011.

In this period, there were 85,814 child injuries on roads within a 500-metre radius of schools, the equivalent of 1,190 incidents a month.

Outside of London, cities with more than 100 schools such as Liverpool, Nottingham, Manchester and Birmingham had the highest number of road injuries (deaths, serious injuries and slight injuries) around schools. 

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