What are the causes of road traffic accident?

There are three causes of road traffic accident 1. Human factors Human factors in vehicle collisions include all factors related to drivers and other road uses that may contribute to a collision. Examples include driver behavior, visual and auditory acuity, decision-making ability, and reaction speed. A 1985 report based on British and American crash data found driver error, intoxication and other human factors contribute wholly or partly...

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Traffic Collision

A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision among others, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree or utility pole. Traffic collisions may result in injury, death and property damage. A number of factors contribute to the risk of collision, including vehicle design, speed of operation, road design, road environment, and driver skill,...

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Training Your School Traffic Safety Team

Your police community officer is responsible for training school traffic safety team members and adult supervisors to ensure that patrols and wardens carry out their duties professionally and competently. They also implement procedures specific to particular crossings to ensure that patrol members and crossing students stay safe. They could include establishing special reference points or 'marks', making changes to operating procedures owing...

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Bus wardens

If students regularly travel to and from your school by bus, you might like to establish a team of bus wardens. These are senior students who work with the school's bus controller, bus drivers and the supervising teacher to monitor and super vise children's behaviour on and around the school bus, to ensure they make their journeys safely. Your police school community officer can provide you with more information - and you'll need to discuss...

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School Wardens in Action

School wardens don't use any equipment to mange children waiting to cross a road. They simply raise one or both arms, barrier arms, to indicate to children that they should wait, and give clear instructions on when to cross. Some schools also provide flags for small children to hold up while crossing the road. Talk with your school community officer if you're thinking about doing this. 1. School wardens at pedestrian and uncontrolled crossings At...

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Your school warden team

Usually, school wardens operate in teams of two, as this enables them to keep a good eye on the road and the children. However, they can operate alone if there's good visibility and little traffic on the road. If you're concerned about visibility problems-perhaps because the crossing is near a corner-discuss the options with your school community officer or road controlling authority. It may be better to move the crossing or establish a...

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School Wardens

Unlike school patrols, school wardens, sometimes called traffic wardens, don't step into the road, stop or control traffic. However, they provide a valuable safety check for school children-most commonly at unmarked crossing points, but also at pedestrian crossings where no school patrols are operating and at traffic-light crossings. School wardens wear the same uniforms as school patrols, but use their arms, as 'barrier arms', to stop pedestrians...

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Copying with Heavy Traffic, Visibility and Windy Conditions

If you're concerned about student safety on the road owing to heavy traffic or obstacles that are reducing patrol visibility, talk to you school community officer or road controlling authority. With safety their top priority, they'll work with you to develop a practical solution. 1. Heavy traffic your school community officer will determine whether the following option is the safest operating procedure for your crossing. Patrol members must...

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Going on School Patrol

Patrol members need to arrive at school with enough time to put on their uniforms, take the STOP signs from the storage area and make their way to the patrol location by the time the patrol is due to start I. Carrying the signs STOP signs are safest when carried 'stretcher fashion', preferably with the discs at the front. Take extra car on windy days, when it might be a good idea to have the discs horizontal, facing the ground,to reduce wind resistance.  If...

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Your school patrol equipment

School patrol equipment comprises: STOP signs, provided by your road controlling authority Removable flags for kea crossing, also provided by the road controlling authority  Uniform that clearly identify students as school traffic safety team members Notebooks and pencils for patrol supervisors, for recording details of unsafe or illegal driver behaviour 1. Signs and Flags The main school patrol signs are:  STOP signs: large...

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What's a kea crossing?

Kea Crossing Kea crossings or school crossing points are used at places with low to moderate traffic levels, often where only school children cross. During non-patrol times, the roads revert to being uncontrolled, so pedestrians crossing them have to give way to vehicles. A kea crossing is made up of: Kerb extensions at each roadside  Vehicle ' hole lines ' on the road at the crossing point Poles to hold the flags and signs. Kea...

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School Patrols

Safe School Zoon School patrols help to keep students safe on the road by controlling the flow of vehicles and pedestrians at pedestrian crossings and 'kea' crossings, school crossing points. Operating before and after school, patrol members extend STOP signs onto the road in both directions, which signal approaching drivers to stop. Once the traffic is slowing or has stopped, the patrol signals to waiting pedestrians that it's safe to cross...

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