Stony Brook Trauma Center and County Executive Steven Bellone Join Students in Promoting Global Road Safety and the #SaveKidsLives Campaign
Every day, more than 500 children are killed as a result of traffic incidents around the world, and tens of thousands are injured, often suffering lifelong disabilities. Children are even more susceptible to road accidents this time of year and through the summer when they are riding bikes and playing outside. Stony Brook Trauma Center, Safe Kids Suffolk and County Executive Steven Bellone joined the third graders at Deauville Gardens East Elementary School in Copiague in honor of the United Nations' Global Road Safety Week to discuss road and vehicle safety and to take "safies,” selfies while holding up messages the students wrote about the importance of being safe on the road.
Global Road Safety Week highlights these ten strategies from the World Health Organization (WHO) to #SaveKidsLives from traffic injuries: controlling speed, reducing drinking and driving, using helmets for bicyclists and motorcyclists, restraining children in vehicles, improving children’s ability to see and be seen, enhancing road infrastructure, adapting vehicle design, reducing risks for young drivers, providing appropriate care for injured children, and supervising children around roads.
Help keep your children safe on the road by talking to them about road safety, making sure they are properly restrained in the car, insisting on seat belt use in the car and helmet use on bikes or other wheeled vehicles, reducing your driving speed, and not driving while intoxicated or while distracted. Get more information at SafeKids.org
