The average annual number of child (age 0-15) road traffic casualties per 100,000 population aged 0-15 based on a rolling three year period. The indicator is broken down into pedestrian, pedal cyclists and all other road users. All other road users include car occupants and other vehicle occupants.
Road accidents are one of the biggest causes of accidental injury and death for children and young people. The number of children aged 0-15 killed or seriously injured in road accidents in Great Britain fell by more than 50 per cent from the 1994-98 average, to 3,294 in 2006 (of whom 169 were killed). The Department for Transport published a new child road safety strategy in February 2007, which sets out work to further improve child road safety. This includes improvements to the delivery of road safety education in schools; continued publicity to encourage safer road use aimed at children, parents and other road users through the road safety campaigns; encouraging wider use of 20mph zones; improvements to driver training and testing; and more general improvements to road safety in areas such as speeding and drink driving.
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