Pedestrian Injury

Key Safety Messages:

Teach kids how to use pedestrian crossings and controlled intersections safely.

Use existing, or establish new Walking School Buses.

School Travel Plans save lives.

Slow down for kids getting on or off buses - the law says 20 kph (in both directions).

Injury to child pedestrians aged 0–14 years is a major cause of traffic related child deaths in New Zealand. Nationally, child pedestrian injury is one of the ten most common causes of injury hospitalisation. Crashes between children and motor vehicles happen on the road, and on private land; including farms, farm roads and driveways. Preschoolers are the most at risk, but child pedestrians of any age can be hurt or killed on the road, particularly at peak times in the hours before and after school.

Click the links below to access cycling injury resources, information, prevention and advice.

Factsheets

Child Pedestrian Injury (National, Pdf, July 2005)
Child Pedestrian Injury (Auckland Region, Pdf, 2005)

Resources

Community Falls & Pedestrian Safety Checklist (Pdf, A4,2005)
Pacific Pedestrian Safety Education Kit (Pdf, July 2006)
Safety and the school bus Flyer (DLE, Pdf, KidSafe Week 2002)

Position Papers, Research, Bibliography and Advocacy Information

Auckland Regional Child Pedestrian Strategy Final Report (Pdf, 2006)

Presentations

The Walking School Bus: A tool for promoting child pedestrian safety in New Zealand, by Ann Weaver (Pdf, Sept 2005)

Links

For links to New Zealand and international websites relating to this injury topic, go to our links page.

This page was last updated August 20, 2010.