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Research & Evaluation
Summary
To date, The Children's Traffic Club remains one of the most researched and evaluated schemes on road safety education.
You can read about the main findings on its success below or you can download/print a full research and evaluation summary in pdf format. You may need the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader software, if not already installed on your computer.
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Main Findings
Below are the main points of research showing how The Children's Traffic Club can help its members to develop safe habits:
- Reduces the number of children who:
- play in the street
- run across the road
- Increases the number of children who:
- hold their carer's hand when outside
- always stop when told
- are careful when crossing driveways
- walk on the inside of the pavement
- stop at the kerb before crossing
- look and listen for traffic before crossing
- recognise safer places to cross
- Gives children knowledge of how to cross a road safely
It was also found that Traffic Club members:
- had 12% fewer overall road casualties than non-members
- had 4% fewer casualties when walking
- had 20% fewer casualties as a result of being hidden by a vehicle while crossing
In a recent survey of Traffic Club members, who had almost completed the programme:
- 99% of the parents/carers said that the Club had helped them teach their child road safety skills
- 76% said the Club had helped them personally to become more road safety aware
- 90% of those parents/carers who had other children in the household (in addition to the member child) said the Club had also helped them teach road safety to their other children
- The proportion of children who were 'always' holding hands with their carer, when outside, had increased by 18%
- The proportion of children who would 'always' stop when asked by their parent or carer, had increased by 33%
- The proportion of children who were 'always' safely strapped in the car, had increased by 10%
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