Children and traffic
Sir,—“Traffic a deadly trap” explains how young children are unable to cope safely with traffic, yet in the same issue (“The Press,” May 2) Mr D. Wilson, general manager of the Canterbury Education Board, is reported as saying that children “have to learn to cope with traffic.” I am appalled that young children are expected to do something they are intrinsically unable to do. This callous attitude certainly contributes to our alarmingly high death rate for child pedestrians. I have lived in Christchurch and sympathise with parents whose children must cross busy roads. It is a national scandal when authorities accept this high death rate as a fact of life. I can never accept this. Let us separate children and traffic by building overbridges and pedestrian ways. If this means changing our spending priorities, so be it. Most accidents are avoidable and if children cannot reach school safely it is high time the education and traffic authorities made sure they can. — Yours, etc.,
ULLA PEDERSEN. Nelson, May 3, 1985.
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