Quiz: Teach your children road safety
Calling all children (and their carers). Step up to the road safety challenge! There are points to be won for our road safety quiz, plus a refresher course for all the grown-ups out there who need a reminder to stay safe on the roads. This year’s Road Safety Week runs from 16-22 November, with a particularly important theme for everyone: NO NEED TO SPEED.
Danger from traffic is a big factor in whether families are able to walk safely in the places where they live. It affects their ability to be healthy and socially active. Children of all ages are at risk of being hurt or killed when walking near roads. On average, six children are killed or seriously injured on roads in Britain every day.
For children to walk safely in their communities, they need their journeys to be safe. They need footpaths, cycle paths, safe places to cross, slow traffic and calm traffic.
Road safety charity Brake recommends that young children should always hold hands with a grown-up when walking near roads. All children should cross roads with an adult at safe crossing places. Dangerous roads and crashes needn’t be a part of our everyday life. Road Safety Week raises awareness about road safety and helping to save lives. Why not give our road safety test to a child and see just how much they know!
1. This is the BONUS ROUND!
Read the Green Cross Code, which is written below, and try your best to remember it. At the end of the quiz, your grown-up will test you. For every correct answer, you will score 10 points!
Maximum score: 60 points
- Stop somewhere safe where you can see
- Look for traffic
- Listen for traffic
- Look left, then right, then left again
- Wait for traffic going in both directions to stop
- Keep looking and listening and only cross when it is safe
2. Where is it safe to play outdoors? (Clue: there are two CORRECT answers, each one wins 10 points!).
Maximum score: 20 points
a) In your garden
b) At the park
c) On a cycle path
d) On a road
3. If you’re inside a car, are you allowed to…
a) Undo your seatbelt?
b) Make lots of noise to make the driver talk to you?
c) Play with the door handle
[Pssst… this is a TRICK question! Of course you can’t do ANY of these!]
Maximum score: 10 points if you said NO to all of these!
4. Stop! You’ve reached the traffic lights!
a) What do you do when you see a green Man lit up? (10 points)
b) What do you do when you see a red man lit up? (10 points)
c) Why do traffic lights make a beeping sound when it’s time to cross? (10 points)
Maximum score: 30 points
5. This year, during Road Safety Week, a charity called Brake have a special slogan to teach people why the speed of traffic matters for safety. Which one of them is correct (score 10 points if you get this one right).
a) No Need to Speed
b) May the force be with you
c) Drive with your windscreen wipers on
Maximum score: 10 points
6. Which of these is NOT a type of road crossing? (HINT: There are four real crossings and three that are made up). Score 10 points for each correct answer.
- Zebra
- Zombie
- Pegasus
- Donkey
- Toucan
- Turkey
- Pelican
Maximum score: 40
7. Which of these is an acceptable reason to speed?
- Everyone else was driving that fast
- I didn’t know how fast I was going
- I was only going a little over the speed limit
- None of these
Maximum score: 10 points
8. Remember that bonus round in question 1? Now test your adult! If they can remember all of the Green Cross Code you win an extra 10 points!
How did you do? Check your answers here
Activity Alert!
Why not ask grown-ups to help keep you safe near roads? Make the sign – there’s NO NEED TO SPEED.
Share your pictures with @brakecharity on social media using #RoadSafetyWeek2020. Order your selfie props at brake.org.uk/shop.
Resources for carers and educators
BRAKE.ORG.UK – the road safety charity has lots of resources for schools and families on its website, including a guide to teaching road safety
THINK.GOV.UK – all about road safety campaigns
ROSPA.COM has a guide to teaching road safety:
https://www.rospa.com/media/documents/road-safety/teaching-road-safety-a-guide-for-parents.pdf
