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What is needed is the political will to implement, enforce and sustain road safety and prevention measures. The countries who dedicate themselves to improving road safety will save many children from death and disability.
- Adopt European standard for mandatory rear seat belt use in all Member States, as in the Czech Republic and Hungary wearing rear seat belts in the rear seats is not mandatory.
- Improve enforcement of child passenger restraints in all Member States of Europe, especially covering booster seat-aged children via fines.
- Create a European legislation for a voluntary agreement for the automobile industry regarding safer vehicle fronts so that they do less damage to vulnerable road users in accidents.
- Promote the culture on road safety through legislative enforcement, environmental modifications and, above all, educational campaigns. Children skills and behaviour may be improved and influenced at an early stage.
EU collaboration
- Provide resources for an annual child road traffic safety campaign communicating proven actions should be planned and implemented in Member States and co-ordinated throughout the European Union to provide high quality road safety education to improve children's skills and awareness of risk, and publicity to encourage use of safety equipment such as seat belts and cycle helmets.
- Ensure that child road traffic safety is incorporated into the training of traffic engineers and urban planners.
- Provide resources for encouraging vehicle designers and manufacturers to find innovative ways to protect child pedestrians and cyclists from cars.
- Expand the use of Automated Enforcement Systems (speed cameras, red light cameras) throughout Europe to help reduce the number of red-light-running violations and speeding.
- Expand the knowledge of parents and the technology of child restraint systems in order to have children travel rearward facing longer.
- Mainstream programme and research funding, resources and skilled, committed-work force put together may contribute to improve performances.
- Involve stakeholders such as practitioners, policy-makers, parents and trainers in the translation of evidence into practice in order to promote optimal dissemination.
This information has been taken from the Fact sheet on Road Safety published by the Alliance in October 2006. This fact sheet including the references to the information above is available.
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