Pedestrian safety

In 2010, there were a total of 638 pedestrian casualties on Kent roads (excluding Medway).

Pedestrian road safety is very important to us and we strive to reduce casualties on Kent's roads. We constantly look for new ways and ideas for promoting safer ways for pedestrians, both young and old, to use the roads around them. We do this through education, training and publicity.

Keeping pedestrians safe on Kent’s roads is one of our main priorities. We use data on casualties and crashes to create specific projects, campaigns and initiatives to address pedestrian casualty reduction. 

As well as working throughout Kent on a daily basis, we also target our resources on areas of the county and specific road user groups, where there is a higher incidence of casualties. 

With increasingly busy lifestyles and more and more traffic on the roads, children's road safety can sometimes be a fatally neglected issue.

In 2010, there were 261 child casualties (aged 0 - 16) on Kent's roads.

Teaching children road safety skills is vital to help them stay safe, as they become increasingly independent. The risk of a child pedestrian being involved in a road crash rises significantly at the age when they start school.

Up until the age of 9, most children cannot judge how fast vehicles are going, or how far away they are. Even when they're teenagers and are more experienced on the roads, they are still at great risk.

Traffic is the single biggest killer of teenagers on the UK’s roads.