Exeter schoolchildren win prizes for Road Safety Week project

Children from Stoke Hill Junior School, Exeter, had a fun time during Road Safety Week (November 21-27, 2016) thinking about – and illustrating - how they can help to make roads safer.

The national awareness week is the flagship event of Brake, the road safety charity, and called for people to ‘Make the Brake Pledge’ to change their behaviour to make roads safer for all users – whether drivers, passengers or pedestrians.

To celebrate this idea, local Brain Injury Group member firm Foot Anstey asked children at Stoke Hill to illustrate how they might improve road safety – and to challenge their parents to do the same.

Foot Anstey has supported Road Safety Week for several years: “We work with families badly affected by avoidable accidents all the time, and campaigns like this are a great way to get the message out there that we can all do a bit more to make our streets safer and reduce accidents,” said Lindsey Connett, Associate at Foot Anstey.  “The posters that the children created demonstrated clearly that they’d had fun learning about road safety.”

The winning entries each received WHSmith vouchers, and all children taking part received a reflective button badge.

“Road Safety Week has a very serious message about keeping everyone safe on the roads and part of this is making children aware of their surroundings and their behaviour when going to and from school,” says Claire McKimm, Assistant Headteacher at Stoke Hill Junior School.

The Brain Injury Group is a national network of specialist brain injury lawyers and support services.  If you have been affected by brain injury visit braininjurygroup.co.uk for help and signposting to services.