Serious child pedestrian road injuries on the journey to and from school in deprived communities .

7 November 2022

This specific project aimed to explore environmental risk factors for serious child pedestrian road injury in the UK between 2016 and 2020. This will enable recommendations for policy and interventions focused on reducing the risk of road injury for children travelling to and from school and promoting active transport methods to be developed.

This project highlighted the following four key recommendations for reducing the road injury risk tochildren during the journey to and from school:

• Deprived neighbourhoods should be the focus of interventions and policy.
• A holistic approach to reducing serious child pedestrian road injury and promoting walking is needed.
• Pedestrian crossings along school routes are needed.
• Parking design should consider the safety of child pedestrians.