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Use the Roads Safely This Christmas and New Year |
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17 December, 2001 Christmas is a time when we tend to focus on the importance of road safety. Kingston Council's team of School Crossing Patrols are at the cutting edge |
Sheila also reports that both her and her colleagues have all seen an increase in the number
of drivers whose concentration is distracted because they are speaking on their mobile phones, or as they light up a cigarette. "It only takes a moment of lost concentration for a life to be lost. Drivers must take more care, especially when travelling near to schools." As someone who has demonstrated commitment to road safety come rain or shine
for many years, it is Sheila's Christmas wish to see all road users taking their responsibilities seriously, so that we and our families may all have a |
They work tirelessly to help keep children safe on the roads and are often alarmed by the poor behaviour of other road users. Sheila Kendall has been the School Crossing Patrol at the junction of Moor Lane and Buckland Road in Chessington for 14 years, expressed her concern over the behaviour of some road users who put children at risk. Sheila says: "Even though wearing seat belts has been the law for fourteen years, parents often set a very bad example by not wearing their own belts. Worse than that, they don't bother to strap their children in safely. Too often I see young children standing on the back seats of cars looking out of the window." |
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