RoSPA’s Key Campaign
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Young Drivers
This year we are particularly asking for support to save hundreds of children and young people from fatal road accidents, with several projects in mind.
Making a difference
The following statistics demonstrate the problems:
- Over 450 children a year under 18 die from road accidents. This is a seventh of all deaths on the road.
- 6,205 children under 18 were seriously injured on the roads IN ADDITION to the above deaths. This is over a fifth of all such accidents. Serious injury usually means a life-changing injury such as loss of limb.
Accidents are the leading cause of death and serious injuries for children between 1 and 14 years old (DH, 2004). Young people are more vulnerable than adults to accidental injury for a number of reasons. These include: lack of experience of traffic; developmental barriers to understanding and the acquisition or implementation of appropriate skills. Some children are more vulnerable than others. For example, children in deprived social classes are more than 3 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured in a road accident than children in higher social classes (DfT, 2006).
At RoSPA we have already done a lot of work to improve use of child car seats to protect the lives of the youngest children. This includes campaigns and education through seminars to reduce the terrible injury levels sustained by this most fragile and vulnerable group. Additional projects for which we now require funding include road safety education resources in other languages, for teaching children whose native tongue is not English,
In addition, we need funds to launch important new initiatives aimed at young drivers. Few people realise that nearly 30% of all road deaths and serious injuries involve a young driver. In fact more than 3 young drivers a day are seriously injured or killed on the road – that amounts to 1,200 a year, and these figures exclude the deaths of other youngsters frequently killed or injured in those same crashes.
1 in 5 drivers crash in their first year of driving, and 1 in 3 young male drivers will write off a car in their first year of driving. The graph shows the much greater crash rate of young drivers, especially males aged 16-19 years, compared with other age groups.
Young drivers are more likely to have crashes involving loss of control of the vehicle, crashes on bends, in the dark and crashes due to inappropriate speed.
So this is why we need your support for the work we are doing in road safety to secure a new and improved approach to training young drivers. Please help us to save the lives of hundreds of youngsters in this way.
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RoSPA is a registered charity: Registered Charity No: 207823 Patron: Her Majesty the Queen RoSPA Head Office: Edgbaston Park, 353 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7ST, UK |
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