The aim of the study reported here was to develop a road safety education resource, which considers how children, aged 8 to 11, see the road traffic environment, and encourages them to be part of a decision-making process to keep them safe. The study's objectives were to: (1) establish methods of listening to children, and to their reactions to a range of road environments and situations; (2) develop a road safety education resource that teachers can use in primary schools; (3) evaluate the resource's use with children and teachers in primary schools in Great Britain; and (4) survey the target age group on their travel patterns to school and their general road use. Nearly 1600 children participated. The study listened to the children, and developed, piloted, and evaluated the educational resource. The following results were achieved: (1) techniques were developed, new to safety education, to listen to children and their reactions to various road situations; (2) an acceptable new teaching resource for 8-11 year olds was developed; (3) teaching of the resource was shown to benefit children's knowledge of safer road-user strategies; and (4) better understanding was obtained of children's road use and perceptions of the road environment.
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