Young children in traffic

This article is the second in a series of "classic" reprinted in this journal and is an important reference for child pedestrian injury. It reviews a study completed in Sweden during the 1960 which endeavoured to find out just what can be regarded as "normal" behaviour for children of different ages and how this effects their ability to deal with traffic situations. It was discovered that children's physical limitations, such as lack of peripheral vision, inability to tell the direction of sound, and lack of understanding of road signs and traffic terminology put them at considerable disadvantage in the traffic environment.