The role of parents/carers in the road safety education of children and youth.

Author(s)
Adams, J.
Year
Abstract

In 1999 VicRoads instigated a review of world's best practice in the traffic safety education of young children. As a result of the review, VicRoads has reassessed its early childhood traffic safety education programs and strategies to maximise the potential to reduce childhood injury. The review established the importance of parents as road safety role models for their children and also their potential to be their primary trainers in road safety skills. Parents/carers also have a critical role in providing opportunities for their learner driver to gain extensive and varied driving experience prior to gaining their licence. Overseas research has shown that learner drivers with over 100 hours of driving practice have a significantly lower crash risk after becoming independent drivers. VicRoads has developed and implemented the 'Keys Please' program, which targets parents/carers and their learner driver together. This paper and presentation will describe the rationale for and the approaches being undertaken by VicRoads to involve parents/carers in the road safety education of their children. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E206143. This paper may also be accessed by Internet users at: http://www.rsconference.com/index.html

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C 27719 (In: C 27675 CD-ROM) /82 /83 / ITRD E206194
Source

In: Regain the Momentum : Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 18-20 November 2001, 6 p.

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