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Pedestrian Safety Tips
- Don’t allow a child under age 10 to cross streets alone. Adult supervision is vital until your child demonstrates traffic skills and judgment.
- Require children to carry a flashlight at night, dawn and dusk. Add retroreflective materials to children’s clothing.
- Prohibit play in driveways, unfenced yards, streets or parking lots.
- Make sure your children take the same route to common destinations (such as school) every time. Walk with your child to find the safest path. Look for the most direct route with the fewest street crossings.
Teach your child safety:
Practical, skills-based training has been demonstrated to improve child pedestrian behavior. Take the time to teach your child to:
- Look left, right and left again before crossing the street. Cross when the street is clear, and keep looking both ways while crossing. Walk, don't run.
- Understand and obey traffic signals and signs.
- Cross at corners, using traffic signals and crosswalks when available. Do not enter the street from between parked cars or behind bushes or shrubs.
- Stop at the curb, or at the edge of the road if there is no curb, before crossing the street. Never run into a street without stopping - even for a ball, pet or any other reason. Darting into the street accounts for the majority of child pedestrian fatalities.
- Walk facing traffic, on sidewalks or paths. Walk as far to the left as possible if there are no sidewalks.
- Watch for cars that are turning or backing up.
Child Passenger Safety Tips
- Children must be restrained until 4 years old and 40 pounds
- Children should ride rear facing for a minimum of 1 year and 20 pounds
- Children should ride in booster seats until they are 8 years old or 80 pounds or 4’9” tall
- Children 12 and under should ride in the back seat—restrained with a lap AND shoulder belt
- Children should be placed in the seat, with the harness straps tight—only one finger should fit between the child and the straps
- The harness retainer clip should be placed at arm level
- For a rear-facing child, the harness straps should come from at or below the shoulder level
- For a forward facing child, the harness straps should come from at or above the shoulder level
- A five-point harness system is the safest
- Any safety seat must be installed and used according to the manufacturer's instructions and your vehicle owner's manual
- The seat should be secure and snug in the car—no more than 1” of movement from side to side or front to back
- NEVER use a seat that has been involved in an accident
- NEVER use a second-hand seat or seat you do not know the history of.
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