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Good practice in road safety

Young people entering a car.

Here's what works in school and community road safety education. Plus, how to plan more effective learning experiences for young people.

Published September 2020.

Teachers and road safety coordinators will find the evidence base for effective road safety education in the two Good practice in road safety research summaries.

  • The first outlines the approaches that work and don’t work, based on local and international evaluations of road safety programmes.
  • The second is about how to plan and evaluate your teaching programmes or community interventions.

Our country’s vision is this:

A New Zealand where no one is killed or seriously injured in road crashes.

Educators contribute to this Vision Zero strategy by building a safety culture where people expect road safety interventions and respond through positive behaviours and attitudes on our roads.

 

Research summary: Effective school and community based road safety for young people

Children entering a car.

Detailed evaluations of injury prevention initiatives give us a reasonable body of evidence about what works and what doesn’t in reducing harm for young road users. Key findings are outlined in this summary.

  • Approaches that work in schools.
  • Working at a community level.
  • Approaches that don’t work, and why not.

Research summary: Effective school and community based road safety for young people [PDF, 1.2 MB]

 

Research summary: Planning community and school based road safety programmes for young people

Parent and child walking.

This includes examples of each step in the process of designing a road safety initiative, plus a matrix on what good practice looks like, and a simple template – the “plan on a page”.

  • How to clearly define the problem and the intervention
  • Content suggestions, and what to watch out for
  • Evaluation methods.

Research summary: Planning community and school based road safety programmes for young people [PDF, 1.2 MB]

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