“Safety First” Instruction to School Children
| Author | F. Russell |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3500800308 |
| Published date | 01 July 1935 |
| Date | 01 July 1935 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
"Safety
First"
Instruction to School
Children
A
NOVEL
METHOD INTRODUCED
AT
NEWCASTLE
UPON
TYNE
By
INSPECTOR
F.
RUSSELL
Newcastle
upon
Tyne
Police
IT
seems superfluous to urge, particularly with regard to
children, that every effort should be made with regard to
proper instruction of " road sense " in this age of speed.
The
gravity of the situation affecting school-children is
realized by the statistics of 193+
In
the London area 6,849,
or 27 per cent, of street accidents involving death or injury
to pedestrians related to school-children.
AChief Constable of a northern borough in his annual
report for 1934 expressed alarm at the proportion of children
killed and injured in the number of street accidents in the
town. He stated that road accidents affecting school-children
were 46
per
cent of the number of pedestrians involved.
It
is now obvious that an educational system in " Safety
First"
methods, especially with regard to young children,
must be applied and developed at the earliest possible age so
that their actions in the street become instinctive and voluntary.
Excellent work has been performed in the past few years
in an effort to inculcate into the younger generation that
" road sense " so necessary to their safety, with a view to
reducing the number of street accidents resulting in the
death and injury of school-children.
Police,EducationAuthorities, and those directly concerned
with the welfare of our children, appreciate the necessity of
some form of instruction for the
"toddlers"
of this age,
which is now realized must be more practical than theoretical.
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