The purpose of the review was to identify and provide critical review of the research and literature concerned with parent-child interaction in relation to road safety education in order to inform the associated study completed in 2007 and to consider the published evidence for the effect of strategies that parents use in training their children to be safe road users and to consider ways of engaging parents in road safety education. The research identified 27 studies and six reviews. The evidence of effect for each study was classed as unclear, high, medium, low/no or harmful. The paper looked at the main findings and identified gaps in knowledge where further research is required. Topics included the epidemiology of child road traffic accidents in the UK; perceptions, beliefs and attitudes about safety and risk in the traffic environment; reviews of parent-child interactions; pedestrian safety; cycling safety; car and driving safety. (Author/publisher) The full text of this document may be found at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/research/rsrr/theme1/no101roadsafe…
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