We all know that any cheeky monkey under 5 is built
for speed, agility and unpredictability. Young children are naturally curious, and as they begin to move around they are unaware of where they are going - often leading them to run behind cars without warning. Most of the fatalities and serious injuries in driveways are reversing accidents which underlines the importance of parents knowing where their children are at all times.
Every week in Queensland, three children are run
over in low speed accidents – many of which are in a driveway.
Every year about 7 children aged 0-14 years are killed in Australia from low-speed runovers:
Top
5 Tips for today
Here are our Top 5 Tips for today to make
your driveway safe. Use these strategies IN COMBINATION to reduce the
risk for run over incidents. Each step makes a Kidsafe home with you a
#Kidsafemum
1. Supervise - Know where the children
are. If home alone and need to move the car either have the children all
appropriately restrained in the vehicle when moving or, if another adult is
around, make sure they have all the children safely secured in the house or
well away from the vehicle. Physically hold them.
2. Separate - the play areas from driveways. Driveways are
not play areas. Some design features that may assist in this include: high
handles on garage doors, self-closing doors and fences between the driveway
and front lawn - consider using pool gates as side fence gates!
3. See - A good habit is to walk around the vehicle
to check no one is quietly hiding behind the vehicle. Install cameras and/or
sensors. A combination of sensors AND a camera can offer better sense of what
is behind the vehicle but alone will not prevent runovers.
4. Teach your children that driveways are like roads –
stop, look, listen and think at every driveway they cross when walking on the
footpath.
5. Remember – don’t move the car if you don’t know where the
kids are!
Win a Kidsafe First Aid Kit.
To enter today’s competition tell us how you keep
your driveway safe?
Email your answer as well as your name, address,
email and phone to qld@kidsafeqld.com.au
or post a comment with a pic or video on the Kidsafe Qld
Facebook under the relevant
post.
Winners will be announced on 11thMay
2015.
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