Road Safety

Pedestrians – Youth Education

School children are more vulnerable than other road users:

• they are smaller and have a limited field of vision;
• they have difficulty accurately determining distances or sources of noise;
• they can be absent-minded and impulsive;
• they are involved in more road accidents.

In 2010, 3,234 pedestrians were killed or injured on Québec roads, including 370 children under age 14.

The importance of getting the road safety message out to children

For additional information (in Fench) or games (in French) highlighting child pedestrian safety.