COME BY BIKE AT SCHOOL

READING AND AFTER, FREE SPEAKING AND BRAINSTORM :

The initiative to organize school alternatives routes don't depend only from the town hall. Teachers and families can also organize to promote alternatives to the car. We should promote this idea and work to it.
As adults we must strive for a sustainable and safe school transportation.
Accidents involving child cyclists are often the result of the child playing, doing tricks, riding too fast or losing control. For teenage and adult cyclists, accidents are more likely to involve collisions with motor vehicles, but about 16% of fatal or serious cyclist accidents reported to the police do not involve a collision with another vehicle, but are caused by the rider losing control of their bicycle.
Every year in this country around 19,000 cyclists are killed or injured in reported road accidents, including around 3,000 who are killed or seriously injured.

Cycling Accidents

·Around 75% of fatal or serious cyclist accidents occur in urban areas 

.Around half of cyclist fatalities occur on rural roads

·75% happen at, or near, a road junction

·80% occur in daylight and 80% of cyclist casualties are male

·Almost one quarter of the cyclists killed or injured are children

·Around three quarters of cyclists killed have major head injuries.

 

Common Cycling Accidents

·Motorist emerging into path of cyclist

·Motorist turning across path of cyclist

·Cyclist riding into the path of a motor vehicle, often riding off a pavement

·Cyclist and motorist going straight ahead

·Cyclist turning right from a major road and from a minor road

·Child cyclist playing or riding too fast