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  2. Road traffic safety - Wikipedia

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    Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians , cyclists , motorists , vehicle passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport (mainly buses and trams ).

  3. Green Cross Code - Wikipedia

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    Tufty Fluffytail, a childlike red squirrel character, was created in 1953 by Elsie Mills to introduce clear and simple safety messages to children. The success of the character led to the creation in 1961 of the Tufty Club for children under five years of age. Under its auspices more than 30,000 Tufty books about road safety were issued to parents.

  4. Road collision types - Wikipedia

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    Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object.

  5. The Highway Code - Wikipedia

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    The Highway Code is the official set of information and guidance for road users in the United Kingdom. Its objective is to promote the safe and efficient use of the road network. The Code applies to all road users, including pedestrians, horse riders and cyclists, as well as motorcyclists and other drivers.

  6. Traffic sign - Wikipedia

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    Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones . Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony .

  7. Rules of the Road: Where does Washington law stand on ... - AOL

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    Q: I don’t know what the Washington State law is, but I watched a police program, state and city unknown, that said a child of 6 years old can be left unattended in a locked car if not more than ...

  8. 2 Children Die in Car Crash, Mom May Have Been ... - AOL

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    Bart Graves, the Arizona Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer, said via KFVS that the mother "may have been distracted by what was going on in the vehicle at the time of the crash."

  9. Hierarchy of hazard controls - Wikipedia

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    [a] It is a widely accepted system promoted by numerous safety organizations. This concept is taught to managers in industry, to be promoted as standard practice in the workplace. It has also been used to inform public policy, in fields such as road safety. [13] Various illustrations are used to depict this system, most commonly a triangle.