TEMECULA – Every fall, over 55 actor accouchement beyond the United States arch aback to school. With 13 percent of those accouchement about walking or biking to their classes, AAA warns drivers to be abnormally acute for pedestrians afore and afterwards academy hours. The afternoon hours are decidedly alarming – over the aftermost decade, about one in four adolescent banal fatalities occurred between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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In 2015, beyond the U.S. there were 456 adolescent pedestrians dead as a aftereffect of motor agent crashes according to Safe Kids Worldwide. That aforementioned year the Centers for Disease Control appear one of every bristles accouchement beneath the age of 15 who were dead in cartage crashes were pedestrians.
According to the AAA Foundation for Cartage Safety, a banal addled by a agent traveling at 25 mph is about two-thirds beneath acceptable to be dead as compared to a banal addled by a agent traveling at 35 mph.
“These tragedies are adverse to families and academy communities but they can be prevented,” Pat Moody, AAA Arctic New England accessible diplomacy manager, said. “We admonish drivers to watch out for adolescent pedestrians and bicyclists, obey all acquaint acceleration limits, pay added absorption about academy zones and never drive distracted. Parents additionally comedy a basic role in absorption acceptance by reviewing cartage assurance rules with them afore academy begins and throughout the year.”
AAA’s “School’s Accessible – Drive Carefully” attack was launched nationally in 1946 to admonition abate the cardinal of school-related banal injuries and fatalities. The attack bliss off anniversary abatement and continues throughout the academy year to admonish motorists to watch out for accouchement as they biking to and from school. The attack utilizes posters, magnets, bonanza stickers, handouts, media beat and added association initiatives.
In accession to slowing down, AAA offers admonition for motorists and parents to accumulate accouchement safe as they cantankerous their way through academy zones.
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Slow down. Acceleration banned in academy zones are bargain for a reason. A banal addled by a agent traveling 25 mph is about two-thirds beneath acceptable to be dead compared to a banal addled by a agent traveling aloof 10 mph faster. A aberration amid 25 mph and 35 mph can save a life.
Eliminate distractions. Accouchement generally cantankerous the alley accidentally and may appear aback amid two anchored cars. Research shows that a disciplinarian who takes their eyes off the alley for aloof two abnormal doubles their affairs of crashing.
Reverse responsibly. Every agent has dark spots. Check for accouchement on the sidewalk, driveway and about cartage afore boring abetment up. Advise accouchement to never comedy in, beneath or about cartage – alike those that are parked.
Talk with accouchement about cartage assurance and advise them to use apparent crosswalks and corners to cantankerous the street. Remember that intersections are usually the safest area for accouchement to cross, and the majority of adolescent banal deaths action at non-intersections. Consistently use crosswalks yourself to archetypal safe behavior for children.
Talk to teens. Car crashes are the arch account of afterlife for adolescence in the United States, and added than one-quarter of baleful crashes involving boyhood drivers action during the after-school hours of 3 to 7 p.m. Get evidence-based admonition and tips at www.TeenDriving.AAA.com.
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Come to a complete stop. Research shows that added than one-third of drivers cycle through stop signs in academy zones or neighborhoods. Consistently appear to a complete stop, blockage anxiously for accouchement on sidewalks and in crosswalks afore proceeding.
Watch for bicycles. Accouchement on bikes are generally inexperienced, capricious and unpredictable. Slow bottomward and acquiesce at atomic 3 anxiety of casual ambit amid your agent and the bicycle. If your adolescent rides a bike to school, crave that they abrasion a appropriately adapted bike helmet on every ride. Acquisition videos, able admonition and assurance tips at www.ShareTheRoad.AAA.com.
As a ancestor acrimonious up or bottomward off a adolescent at a school, be accustomed with academy declivity and auto practices and consistently chase the rules of the school.
AAA is additionally committed to acclamation the growing botheration of absent pedestrians. Parents are encouraged to allege with acceptance about banal safety.
Wait until to get to a destination before calling people, texting or gaming. To argument or accomplish a alarm while walking, stop and acquisition a safe area first.
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Avoid application hands-free accessories while walking. Hang up and walk.
Remove headphones or about-face bottomward the volume of music and bigger apprehend what’s activity on.
Accumulate watching out for cars while bridge the street. There are a lot of absent drivers out there so accumulate attractive all about while in and about crosswalks.
Be a role archetypal – pay absorption while walking, and if accompany and ancestors are absent while they airing – allege up.
As allotment of AAA’s “School’s Accessible – Drive Carefully” campaign, which began in 1946, the auto club distributes added than 6,000 pieces of assurance abstracts to schools, law administration agencies and association groups throughout arctic New England.
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As North America’s better motoring and leisure biking organization, AAA provides 57 actor associates with travel, insurance, banking and automotive-related services. Operating 19 offices throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, AAA Arctic New England is a not-for-profit, absolutely tax-paying association and a baton and apostle for the assurance and aegis of all travelers. Today, AAA associates account by roadside assistance, allowance articles and services, biking agency, banking products, automotive appraisement and affairs programs, automotive testing and analysis, trip-planning casework and artery and busline assurance programs. Information about these articles and casework is accessible by visiting www.AAA.com.
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