Road Safety Study Blames Overspeeding As Threat To Kids
posted on 24 November 2010 | posted in
Business and Finance
A UK based charity group, BRAKE, has come out with a study on the road safety within UK and the statistics look appalling and call for some immediate action to be taken. This study was undertaken as part of the road safety week.
As per the findings in this study, children feel that most bikers and car drivers over speed and hence cause a major threat to the well being of people on the road. This is so especially true of roads in the vicinity of schools, parks and other urban areas.The study confirmed that 86% of drivers actually over speed.
Further, 1 in 10 children said that they have been hit while on the road by an over speeding vehicle that could be a bike or a car. Another 56% have said that they narrowly missed being hit by over speeding vehicles.
As a result, BRAKE has called for a legislation that limits the speed of vehicles to 20 miles, and this could be done at least in the vicinity of schools and parks to ensure that avoidable incidents can be checked.
With road safety being a major thrust for the Government, we at the Fuel Card team look forward to drivers being more sensitive to the safety of others on the road.
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