Re: Kids riding on pavement - local news story

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:45:31 +0100, John B <nothing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



Simon Brooke wrote:


Mind you, I am not defending cycling on the pavement, even by eight year
olds. But if the State and the community (and the police as our
representatives) want children not to cycle on the pavement, they have
some degree of responsibility to make the roads acceptably safe - which,
at 3,000 deaths per year, they currently are not.

...and to ensure that suitable training is available.

From Child Cyclist Training: National Standard and Guidelines, March
2005

3.6 Currently most training providers set the minimum age for Level 2
training at 10 years. This should enable all children in the final
term of Year 5 to receive training [not true: about two fifths of Year
5 pupils will be nine at the beginning of the Summer Term, and about
an eighth by the end of the summer term]. However, as the key factor
in setting age limits should be the cognative skills that children
have on presenting for training, there can in some circumstances be
good arguments for setting a lower minimum age. The 10 year minimum
age has normally been set because by this age children's judgement of
distance to and speed of approaching traffic should be well enough
developed for them to cope safely with conditions on quieter roads.
However, research, notably from the Strathclyde study (Child
Development and the Aims of Road Safety Education, Department for
Transport, March 1996) shows that appropriate training can accelerate
the development of these skills.
.

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