‘Take care on residential roads’
Motorists are unaware of the high risk of accidents involving pedestrians when driving in residential areas, a survey has found.
Motorists are unaware of the high risk of accidents involving pedestrians when driving in residential areas, a survey has found.
The RAC quizzed 2500 motorists and found that just 1% considered residential areas a risky place to drive, even though 80% of accidents involving children are in these areas.
Extra care should be taken when driving in residential areas, particularly now the school summer holidays have started, the RAC said. A total of 8625 pedestrians were killed or seriously injured in residential areas in 2003.
RAC spokesman Mark Hodges said: ‘We urge drivers to exercise more caution over the summer months as children take to the streets to play.’
Only 13% of motorists identified traffic lights as a likely place to have an accident – although they were the site of almost 200,000 collisions in 2003.
Nearly 50% were aware of the dangers faced when driving in built-up areas such as town centres, while 11% thought that motorways were the most likely place to have an accident.
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