Editor—Gill et al discussed changes in safety on England’s roads. Schools in Surrey seem to compete to have the most conservative school uniforms. Most require students to wear dark coloured outer clothing and explicitly ban brighter coloured outer clothing. This prevents students from following the universal guidance to wear light, brightly coloured clothes to increase conspicuousness and reduce their odds of adding to the pedestrian accident statistics. Many school governing bodies refuse to discuss the issue, simply dismissing as “inappropriate” advice from road safety officers and organisations and parents that they might permit more appropriate outer clothing. We should be encouraging children to walk or cycle to school; and schools should help us by not creating unnecessary additional disincentives. (Author/publisher)
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