This document provides road safety tips for parents to share with their children. Some key tips include teaching children road safety from a young age, discouraging racing videos and games, ensuring children always wear helmets when using motorcycles or bicycles, maintaining safe distances on the road, and being cautious near accident-prone areas. The document encourages parents to print and share the tips with others to help prevent road accidents and save lives.

1. ROAD SAFETY
TIPS FOR
PARENTS

2. PREFACE
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More than 1,200,000
people are killed
in Road Accidents
worldwide, every year.
Download and share the following Tips
to save thousands of lives.

3. Road Safety Tips for Parents
( Printable version of the Tips available towards the end of the Slide)
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afety
• Safety awareness should begin from childhood,
as it is difficult to impart awareness to a grown
up a human. If safety awareness is imparted at
childhood, safety will be a habit. So impart
Road Safety and General Safety awareness to
children
your children during childhood itself. Better
before the age of Six.

4. • Video, Computer Games that simulate Racing
should discouraged by parents as it will
develop racing habit in children.
• Don’t allow your children to watch Motor sports
especially Racing.
• Cinema, Serials and Advertisements involving
Serials
Racing, over speed / highly risky riding etc
should be watched by children ONLY with
Parental Guidance. Tell them about it’s dangers
when they are small kids.

5. • Children below a certain age should not be
cycling
permitted to do cycling in busy roads / roads
where heavy vehicles are plying.
• Parents of children residing near busy roads
should keep the Gates closed always.
• Do not give cycles and two wheelers until they
are mentally mature enough.
• Ensure that children use Helmet while using
Two Wheeler
• Back seat riders also should use Helmet.

6. • If Helmet is not available do not accept the
offer for a lift.
• Always fix the Chinstrap of your Helmet.
Otherwise it will not help during an accident.
with
• Ensure that your Helmet is of good quality with
ISI mark, Otherwise replace it TODAY.
• Most important method to prevent road
accidents is restriction of speed. 90 % of
accidents can be avoided by limiting speeds.
• Always maintain safe distance with the vehicle
in front.

7. mobile
• Don’t let your children to use mobile phones
while driving / riding.
• Ask your children to avoid listening to MP3
music while walking / driving / riding on the
road.
• Ask your children to avoid FM Radio, iPod etc
music while walking / driving / riding on the
road.
planning
• When your family is planning a new Car, go for
a Yellow / other bright colored one. Avoid the
Black colour as far as possible.

8. • Buy only Yellow cloured cycle for your kids.
• Never drink and drive. Somebody is waiting for
you at home.
• Never use mobile phones while driving / riding.
• Avoid long trips during night, as far as
possible.
• Insist that your child uses bright colored
dresses, if your child is going for an early
morning walk or cycling or walking on a road
during night or if the lighting is poor or if there
some
is due to mist or some other reason.

9. • If you are driving at night, get refreshed at
regular intervals by having a face wash or by
having a cup of Coffee or Tea. Somebody
should ensure that you are awake.
• There is a practice of keeping the traffic signals
during
in standby mode during nights and on holidays.
It is highly risky, hence be extra cautious at
junctions with signal system in standby mode.
• Advertisement boards and other items that
may obstruct visibility at junctions, curvatures

10. cautious
and other parts of the roads. Hence be cautious
about them.
• Restrict speed at known accident prone areas.
• Check up your vehicle regularly and before long
journey.
• Old age drivers should checkup their eyes
periodically.
• A small pool of water or a hanging branch of
tree / rope / cable on roadside can cause
accident, as such obstructions will make the
pedestrians / drivers to take sudden LATERAL

11. movement and result in accidents. Drivers and
Pedestrians should not make sudden lateral
movement.
• Teach your children to look behind before
making any lateral movement while walking on
the road. Let them make it a habit so that they
will do it automatically before making any
lateral movement.
• Children playing ball games like Football,
Cricket, Tennis etc. near Roads are likely to run
across the road carelessly to pick the ball as the

12. ball goes out of the field. Strict instructions
should be given to children to be very careful
while crossing the road to pick the ball.
• Small children have a tendency run across or
along the roads, all of a sudden on seeing their
parents, siblings, friends or relatives etc. Hence
small children should be given strict
instructions not to do that. Also try to avoid
such circumstances on roads as far as possible.
For example when children return from school,
stop
we should reach the bus stop in advance to

13. pick them to home. If we reach the Bust stop
late, children may run on seeing us from far.
• When you are walking with small children on
road side, hold on their hand. It should not be
the other way ie. Don't let the children to hold
on your hand.
your
• While walking with children on road side, keep
the children on the outer side of the road. You
should be in the inner side.
• Avoid driving if you are experiencing excessive
sneezing.

14. • Do not drive after taking sleep inducing tablets
anti-histamines,
anti-histamines, anti-
anti-allergic, anti-
anti-
like
depressants etc.
• Buy only bright colored dresses for your
children. Sometimes, this may help in averting
an accident. Never select black or dark color
dresses for your children.
• Better use a Yellow colored Helmet.
• Small children may sleep while traveling by two
children
wheelers. Hence ensure that they are awake
while traveling by two wheelers.

15. • There are certain types of two wheelers which
do not require a valid license for use. This
nonsense of the authorities should not be a
valid reason to risk the safety of your children.
reason
• Learn driving from the best and reputed diving
school in your neighborhood.
• Never bribe to acquire a driving license for you
or your children. Do not use shortcut methods
to get license.
after
• Appear for driving test after you are fully
convinced and confident.

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17. Road Safety Tips for Parents and Children
Safety awareness should begin from childhood, as it is difficult to impart awareness to a grown up a human. If safety
•
awareness is imparted at childhood, safety will be a habit. So impart Road Safety and General Safety awareness to your
children during childhood itself. Better before the age of Six.
Video, Computer Games that simulate Racing should discouraged by parents as it will develop racing habit in children.
children.
•
Don’t allow your children to watch Motor sports especially Racing.
•
Cinema, Serials and Advertisements involving Racing, over speed / highly risky riding etc should be watched by children
•
ONLY with Parental Guidance. Tell them about it’s dangers when they are small kids.
Children below a certain age should not be permitted to do cycling in busy roads / roads where heavy vehicles are plying.
•
Parents of children residing near busy roads should keep the Gates closed always.
•
Do not give cycles and two wheelers until they are mentally mature enough.
•
Ensure that children use Helmet while using Two Wheeler
•
Back seat riders also should use Helmet.
•
If Helmet is not available do not accept the offer for a lift.
•
Always fix the Chinstrap of your Helmet. Otherwise it will not help during an accident.
Otherwise
•
Ensure that your Helmet is of good quality with ISI mark, Otherwise replace it TODAY.
•
Most important method to prevent road accidents is restriction of speed. 90 % of accidents can be avoided by limiting
•
speeds.
Always
Always maintain safe distance with the vehicle in front.
•
Don’t let your children to use mobile phones while driving / riding.
•
Ask your children to avoid listening to MP3 music while walking / driving / riding on the road.
•
Ask your children to avoid FM Radio, iPod etc music while walking / driving / riding on the road.
•
When your family is planning a new Car, go for a Yellow / other bright colored one. Avoid the Black colour as far as
•
possible.
Never drink and drive. Somebody is waiting for you at home.
•
Never use mobile phones while driving / riding.
•
Avoid long trips during night, as far as possible.
•

18. Insist that your child uses bright colored dresses, if your child is going for an early morning walk or cycling or walking on
•
lighting
a road during night or if the lighting is poor or if there is due to mist or some other reason.
If you are driving at night, get refreshed at regular intervals by having a face wash or by having a cup of Coffee or Tea.
•
Somebody should ensure that you are awake.
keeping
There is a practice of keeping the traffic signals in standby mode during nights and on holidays. It is highly risky, hence
•
be extra cautious at junctions with signal system in standby mode.
and
Advertisement boards and other items that may obstruct visibility at junctions, curvatures and other parts of the roads.
•
Hence be cautious about them.
Restrict speed at known accident prone areas.
•
Check up your vehicle regularly and before long journey.
•
Old age drivers should checkup their eyes periodically.
•
branch
A small pool of water or a hanging branch of tree / rope / cable on roadside can cause accident, as such obstructions will
•
make the pedestrians / drivers to take sudden LATERAL movement and result in accidents. Drivers and Pedestrians should
not make sudden lateral movement.
children
Teach your children to look behind before making any lateral movement while walking on the road. Let them make it a
•
habit so that they will do it automatically before making any lateral movement.
Children playing ball games like Football, Cricket, Tennis etc. near Roads are likely to run across the road carelessly to
•
pick the ball as the ball goes out of the field. Strict instructions should be given to children to be very careful while
crossing the road to pick the ball.
Small children have a tendency run across or along the roads, all of a sudden on seeing their parents, siblings, friends or
the
•
relatives etc. Hence small children should be given strict instructions not to do that. Also try to avoid such circumstances
return
on roads as far as possible. For example when children return from school, we should reach the bus stop in advance to
pick them to home. If we reach the Bust stop late, children may run on seeing us from far.
When you are walking with small children on road side, hold on their hand. It should not be the other way ie. Don't let the
•
children to hold on your hand.
While walking with children on road side, keep the children on the outer side of the road. You should be in the inner side.
•
Avoid driving if you are experiencing excessive sneezing.
•
Do not drive after taking sleep inducing tablets like anti-histamines, anti-allergic, anti-depressants etc.
taking anti- anti-
anti-
•

19. Buy only bright colored dresses for your children. Sometimes, this may help in averting an accident. Never select black or
•
dark color dresses for your children.
Better use a Yellow colored Helmet.
use
•
Small children may sleep while traveling by two wheelers. Hence ensure that they are awake while traveling by two
•
wheelers.
There are certain types of two wheelers which do not require a valid license for use. This nonsense of the authorities
•
should not be a valid reason to risk the safety of your children.
Learn driving from the best reputed diving school in your neighborhood.
•
get
Never bribe to acquire a driving license for you or your children. Do not use shortcut methods to get license.
•
Appear for driving test after you are fully convinced and confident.
•

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