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The Green Cross Code is a brand created by the National Road Safety Committee (now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, RoSPA) to raise awareness of pedestrian road safety in the United Kingdom. The multimedia Green Cross Code campaign began in 1970 and continues today. The Green Cross Code replaced the earlier Kerb Drill (below ...
Charley Says. A scene from one of the short films. Charley Says is a series of six short cut-out animated cartoon public information films for children, made in 1973. [1][2] They were produced by the British government's Central Office of Information and broadcast in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s. [3][4]
Traffic park. A traffic park or children's traffic park is a park in which children can learn the rules of the road. A traffic park is also called a transportation park or traffic garden or safety village depending on locale. Traffic parks are frequently created as an attraction within a larger park. In other cases, they are single-use parks ...
Road traffic safety. Vehicles experiencing a breakdown or an emergency can stop in the emergency lane; these lanes may themselves present risks to traffic. Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle ...
I’m a traffic safety nerd; I focus on high-risk driving behaviors like speed, impairment, and distraction, and the impacts they have on road users. If you can prove my previous statement wrong ...
Crossing guard. A crossing guard (North American English), [1] lollipop man/lady (British, Irish, and Australian English), [2][3] or school road patrol (New Zealand English) [4] is a traffic management personnel who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians. Often associated with elementary school children, crossing guards stop ...
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. As of 1995, safety patrol members were located in 76 percent of the ...
A speed bump is a bump in a roadway with heights typically ranging between 8 and 10 centimetres (3 and 4 in). The traverse distance of a speed bump is typically less than or near to 0.3 m (1 ft); contrasting with the wider speed humps, which typically have a traverse distance of 3.0 to 4.3 m (10 to 14 ft). [5][6] Speed bumps are used in parking ...