An Experimental Study on Parents’ Recognition of Practical Safety Issues of Children for Traffic Safety Education about Road Crossing Decision

Abstract

Traffic accidents of children have been decreasing every year, but the countermeasures for traffic safety are still needed for more safety roads. Currently, education of traffic safety for children has mostly focused on “recognitions”because of the problems on characteristics at children’s road crossing. However, it may be caused children’s traffic accident by making a mistake in "decisions". Therefore, traffic safety education on "crossing decisions" is necessary as well as “recognitions of vehicles”. In this paper, experimental study was conducted to research about the parents’understandings of their children’s “crossing decision” who has the closest relationship on a daily life. As a result, there are gap between parents and children so that the parents are seems to believe that children are making “crossing decision” based on vehicle’s speed but children don't consider it when they cross a road. In addition, even though parents recognized the reality of the child who tends to make a mistake to a high-speed vehicle, they don't understand the seriousness of their mistakes.