Stop, Look, Listen

Help saves lives and support Road Safety Week 16 - 24 November. Every day in the UK nine people are killed and nearly ten times as many are seriously injured as a result of road crashes.

Road Safety Week is an initiative by Brake - the road safety charity with two aims, preventing road crashes through incentives and campaigns, and supporting people seriously injured or bereaved through road crashes.

Many schools will be taking part to raise awareness and funds during Road Safety Week and you can click for fundraising ideas on www.roadsafetyweek.org.uk and www.brake.org.uk

The theme this year is Family Safety:

Stop. Imagine. Change.

Brake is trying to raise awareness of the following three things:

• The vital need for parents to protect the ones they love. Using car seats seat belts, cycling and walking safely, and speed when driving your family. The terrible devastation caused by death and injury on the roads. The need for drivers and parents to Stop. Imagine. Change.
• Brake is asking people to stop and imagine how horrendous it would be to lose a loved one in a road crash or cause a fatal crash.
• Observe the speed limits, holding children's hands when crossing the roads, look twice at junctions and trying not to overtake unless it's safe.

Just a few ‛back to basics' may just save thousands of lives on Britain's roads.