Keeping children safer on our roads

• preventing injuries in and around cars¹ (on the ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) website)
• children and road safety² (on the ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) website)
• resources on school road safety education³ (on the YES (Youth Education Service) section of the New Zealand Police website)
• RoadSense website⁴ which provides road safety classroom resources targeted at primary and intermediate schools
• Kea crossings: School crossing points⁵ (on the Land Transport NZ website); Kea crossings provide children with a safe place to cross the road
• Kaha the Kea’s out and about safety checklist⁶ (at the Child Safety Foundation New Zealand website)

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Where to go for more information

Child Safety Foundation of New Zealand
The activities of the Foundation are aimed, principally, but not exclusively at the safety of those children under the age of seven years. Foundation efforts are aimed at parent, caregiver, pre-school and primary school groups.
Head office address: 15 Veronica Street, New Lynn, Auckland
Postal address: PO Box 56-313, Dominion Road, Auckland
Phone: 64 9 827 6182 or call free on 0800 CHILD SAFETY (0800 244 5372)
Fax: 64 9 827 6184
Website: http://www.childsafety.co.nz/

 

Land Transport New Zealand
Address:PO Box 2840, Wellington
Call the helpdesk free on 0800 699 000
Email: info@landtransport.govt.nz
Website: http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/

 

Safekids New Zealand
Safekids offers a number of services and programmes designed to contribute to the reduction of child injury.
Address: Fifth Floor, Cornwall Complex, Building 15, 40 Claude Road, Epsom, Auckland
Postal address: PO Box 26 488, Epsom, Auckland
Phone: 64 9 630 9955
Fax: 64 9 630 9961
Email: infocentre@safekids.org.nz (To access data and materials from the Safekids National Information & Resource Centre)
Website: http://www.safekids.org.nz/

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Links   (these are the web addresses for the numbered links in the text above)

[1] http://www.acc.co.nz/injury-prevention/home-safety/common-ch
ild-injuries/WCM001352?ssSourceNodeId=4175&ssSourceSiteId=14
94

[2] http://www.acc.co.nz/injury-prevention/road-safety/WCM001459
?ssSourceNodeId=4175&ssSourceSiteId=1494

[3] http://www.police.govt.nz/service/yes/resources/road/

[4] http://www.roadsense.co.nz/

[5] http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/factsheets/26.html

[6] http://www.childsafety.co.nz/checklists/check_outabout.htm

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