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Read the National Safety Council position statement on child restraints, which addresses child passenger safety among multiple modes of transportation. [10] 54% of child heatstroke deaths occur because a caregiver has forgotten a child in a vehicle. [11] In 2017, 42 children died of heatstroke.
One of a series of safety research vehicles produced by British Leyland in the 1970s including a pedestrian-friendly bonnet. In May 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that more than 270,000 pedestrians lose their lives on the world’s roads each year, accounting for 22% of the total 1.24 million road traffic deaths.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has published the results of their tests for pre-collision automated ADAS and determined a 50% improvement with automated braking. They did not provide separate information for pedestrian safety. [10] HLDI, a part of IIHS, provides some evaluations of most of the main pre-collision ADAS. [11]
Junior safety patrol is a voluntary group of crossing guards involving older students helping younger students cross streets in elementary and middle schools across the United States and Canada. Both the Chicago Motor Club and the St. Paul Police started programs in 1920.
Safety hazards have been noted due to pedestrians walking slowly and without attention to their surroundings because they are focused upon their smartphones. Texting pedestrians may trip over curbs, walk out in front of cars and bump into other walkers. The field of vision of a smartphone user is estimated to be just 5% of a normal pedestrian's ...
Vienna's first pedestrian zone on the Graben (2018) Pedestrian mall in Lima, Peru. Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, [1] and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town restricted to use by people on foot or human-powered transport such as bicycles, with non-emergency motor ...
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A video showing a protected signalised intersection to US standards. A protected intersection or protected junction, also known as a Dutch-style junction, is a type of at-grade road junction in which cyclists and pedestrians are separated from cars.