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I’ve used Steve at Red Zulu and a couple of others over many years. Steve is good – but you get what you pay for to a large extent. I’ve spent with local fire and rescue service on hi-vis rucksack covers because they are waterproof – give visibility in 3 directions and have reflective strips on. Also can get little straps that go on rucksack straps – I tend to give one or other. My target audience was Uni students – but now I also target commuters. Got this from casualty data – which also informs where we distribute them.
Previously I’ve given out simple LED front and back lights – sometimes they are sold for £1 a set end of season . We try and work with police so that week before clocks go back we’ll stop and advise – maybe give out lights , next we hope police will stop and chastise/ticket. Obviously recent years no capacity.
Also see if you’ve a vehicle mark up shop near you which has offcuts of HV reflective sticky back plastic . We’ve got a couple in county who are happy to give us offcuts – and now to shape them for us as well.
Keith Baldock
You could try Brightkidz – great to deal with and have loads of this sort of stuff!
Their website is:
John
Hi Alexander
Red Zulu Limited is a Shropshire based company that specialises in the supply of materials for the promotion of Road Safety. Please give me a call and we can discuss your requirement.
Regards
SteveSteve Burge
E: steve.burge@red-zulu.com
T: 01588 673107Hello, Alexander.
The above (2014) article may be of interest. From there, you may be able to find and contact a range of companies offering the gear you’re after. How things have moved on from my tandem days (sigh). None of it’s cheap, though …
Why not speak to one or two of the cycling advocates?
Andrew.
Andrew Fraser
Hi Julie
We used to offer stickers as part of our COSTS (Company Operator Safer Transport Scheme) happy to send you the artwork – we no longer use them as we now support the Driving for Better Business (DfBB) from Highways England instead of COSTS – but they were always very popular…
Em Tugwell-Smith
Hello Karen,
This academic year (before Covid-19) my Road Safety lesson throughout all of my local Primary Schools was Seatbelt Safety. The lesson is about 30-40 minutes each class.
With regards to Years 3 & 4 classes, I have a PowerPoint presentation that includes a video and relevant information for the children. I find the presentation brings good discussions and questions with the classes. At the end of the lesson, I use a small sledge ramp and a car with small fabric dummies. I show the class the car journey on the ramp without and with seatbelts, again this is a discussion point and very effective for the children to see.If you require any more information or if you are interested I can provide you with my presentation, please contact me and I am happy to help 🙂
Many thanks,
Chloe LyonsSeatbelts is a good one – a personal bug-bear of mine – rather than the DIM family tech’ (interesting as it is), are there any what the Americans call the “seat-belt enforcer”? This the DIM family tech’ in the flesh/metal where the subject is put in a seat on a ramp (5-point harness), Seat is allowed to roll down the ramp and hit the stop at the bottom at 6-7mph. Very kinaesthetically effective.
As for VRU’s:
Pedestrian education, for me, centres around “see and be seen”, distraction avoidance and compliance. Pedestrian education should start with parents/drivers pointing out what being an intelligent pedestrian involves.From the opposite/driver/rider angle, I include an analysis of SMIDSY events in any training I do:
Not seeing what’s there to be seen (VRU’s and others) is part of the human condition and “failed to look properly” is one factor (among others) quoted by the Police in more than 40% of crashes.
So anything that brings out the elements of SMIDSY is a useful nudge. What blocks vision:
– physical obstructions inside and outside the vehicle, clearly
– psychological elements, optimism bias, rush-rush, late pressures, over-familiarity, complacency
– saccadic masking, the inability of the brain to take in detail in a visual scan. Easily proven.
– punctum caecum, the 2% blind spot in each eye. Easily demonstrated.David
E: Ralge@sky.com
T: 07791382519Hi Karen, we use the Dimm family too. But we also use a catapult to show how kinetic energy throws you forward to explain why how a seat belt works (easier to move around than the Dimm family!). We also stole Lancashire’s idea from the last national conference and have a car seat ‘measuring stick’ set at 135cm and children have to check if they are tall enough. This helps explain the car seat rules. We have a presentation that covers a range of issues with this age group called Safe4Life. Ruth
Ruth Gore
Thank you for responding Keith and Patrick. Your comments are helpful, and we are going to look into the RSGB Arility session and the Cycling UK video.
Karen Dobson
Not strictly in car, and not to protect the passenger or driver, but with the ever increasing number of untrained cyclists on the road perhaps you could consider including ‘The Dutch Reach’ to encourage those getting out of cars to look out properly for cyclists before opening the door, Cycling UK have a good video on their site.
Patrick Jarman
I really don’t prioritise yr3+4 for in car stuff – only at events where used to use DIMMS (tired like yours and not replaceable) which tended to be more targeted at yr 6 transition. I’ve used the RSGB Arility resource – started to and planned to replace DIMMS with that. Though not equivalent.
For us – city – casualties tend to be as VRUs, around walk to school. For this I also like the braking distance activity, combined with crossing road safely and vision test for driving – then discussing/modelling to bring out variables when planning to cross road in real life. But with yr 6 transition. Yr3+4 still to child ped training from earlier. Has the problem been highlighted by local data?
Keith Baldock
E: keith.baldock@brighton-hove.gov.uk
T: 07932552842Dear Karen,
I can recommend the ‘Dim Family’ resource, which is a reduced sized car, containing a beanbag ‘family’, plus 8 ft ramp. The car is run down the ramp and crashes, with the benefits of seat-belt wearing demonstrated by repeating the exercise with occupants belted, or not.
We bought the practical demonstration kit from Forge House Group, Darlington and it cost around £800.
We used this really useful practical demonstration resource with KS2. I can provide you with results of an evaluation we conducted with couple of groups of Yr6 students – where we measured before and after knowledge and attitudes.
The results of the evaluation showed us the intervention had been effective in delivering what we’d intended. If interested, I can provide you with the results of the evaluation.
Julie Jones
Postscript:
Even supposing the powers that be gave approval to advertisements on the rear of traffic signs – and there’s always a danger that they might – these advertisements would be on the wrong side of the road. A rudimentary traffic signing rule is that advertisements of the traffic sign class should (with very few exceptions) be placed on the nearside – incidentally re-inforcing the need to drive on the left in this country.
But anything goes, these days, I’ve found …
Andrew.
E: andmarg@hotmail.co.uk
T: 01786465584Hi.
In my area, Wset Sussex, the problem with road signs is a lot of them are hidden by trees and bushes, so you can’t even see the front of them, let alone the back’s.
Regards, Roger.
Roger Hosking
It would be interesting to know a little more detail about the collisions which are occuring at the junction.
For example, are the vehicles which are turning right out of the minor arm being struck by vehicles approaching from the right or from the left? Similarly are those vehicles turning right into the minor arm struck by vehicles approaching along the mainline or by vehicles coming out of the minor road wanting to occupy the same waiting space?
