Driveway run over - Safekids

INFO CENTRE UPDATE: Driveway run over
The Safekids Information & Resource Centre collects research and
other material which adds to our knowledge about child injury and its
prevention. Here is some of the material from our collection which
relates to the prevention of child driveway runovers – this topic has
both been in the news recently and summer is the time of year these
incidents commonly occur:
reinforcing how large the vehicle ‘blind spots’ are, especially when a
driver is backing. As of the September 2007 launch there are 4 kits in
Auckland region to be used to promote driveway runover prevention.
Available at:
http://www.childsafety.co.nz/
Reference number 8797
Safekids position paper: Understanding and acting to prevent
driveway injuries to children.
Chambers, Julie
Auckland, Safekids New Zealand: 2007.
This position paper from Safekids NZ analyzes driveway runovers
in terms of three factors: property layout and design - such as doors
opening onto driveways and separation of play areas from driveways,
vehicle design - including issues like rearward visibility and human
factors - such as awareness and supervision processes. It concludes
with the recommendations that: measures to improve rearward visibility
be adopted as standard safety features of the New Zealand vehicle
fleet and that the provision of research and education programmes to
improve public awareness of the problem and inform decision makers
be undertaken.
Reference number 8977
There’s no going back [A3 poster, DLE pamphlet, envelope sized,
small in-car sticker]
Kaaore he hokinga whakamuri [Maori resources]
E le mafai ona e toe fo’i i tua [Samoan resources]
‘Oku ‘ikai ha to e foki ki mu’a [Tongan resources].
Auckland, Safekids
New Zealand: 2006
These driveway-runover
prevention resources were
developed in response
to a growing awareness
of these often fatal offroad
incidents. There are
English, Maori, Samoan
and Tongan versions of
all the resources. The A3
KNOW WHERE THE KIDS ARE
BEFORE GETTING IN THE CAR
THERE’S NO GOING
CHECK
for children before
driving off
SUPERVISE
children around
vehicles - always
SEPARATE
play areas from
driveways
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poster and DLE pamphlet feature the same image of a toddler and backing
car and a celebrity who is a father (English version - John Campbell,
Maori version - Pio Terei, Samoan version - Feleti Strickson-Pua, Tongan
version - Awen Guttenbeil). As well as carrying the message ‘Know where
the kids are before getting in the car, there’s no going back’ they carry
a checklist with the headings ‘CHECK’, ‘SUPERVISE’, ‘SEPARATE’. The
resource also includes a small sticker with the main prevention message
and a diagram of a toddler and backing car. This sticker is intended to be
stuck inside the car to remind the driver to take care. Some funding was
provided by Johnson & Johnson.
Please contact Wayne at
wcarter@adhb.govt.nz
to order these resources, we have many of the English and Maori
versions.
Reference number 8662
Check where the kids are - there’s no going back!
Auckland, Driveway Runover Prevention Project
Group (DROPP Group): 2007
This record describes a collection of five printed
out photos of a community education kit but we
do not hold a copy of the kit. It is made up of a
7 m x .6 m rollable plastic sheet which is marked
with one meter markings (at 1-6 meters) and the
message ‘Check where the kids are - there’s no
going back!’ and ‘check’, ’supervise’, ‘separate’
developed by Safekids NZ for its Driveway
Runover resources, see record # 8662. There is
also a base and PVC flag/banner which is 1. 830
m x .46 m with message ‘Check where the kids are
- there’s no going back!’. There are also 3 cut out and painted life sized
figurines of 2 toddlers and a baby. The intention is that the sheet be laid
out behind a vehicle at community events and the figurines be placed on
the spaced intervals until they can to seen by the driver thus practically
Driveway run-over prevention: Raising awareness
[DVD].
Injury Free Counties Manukau
Auckland, Injury Free Counties Manukau: 2009.
This driveway runover prevention video was made
with the help of: Injury Free Counties Manukau,
the Driveway Run-over Prevention Group, Safe
Waitakere, Child Safety Foundation New Zealand,
Communities Living Injury Free, Auckland District
Health Board and Plunket.
It uses the ‘check, supervise, separate’ safety
messages developed by Safekids NZ for its driveway
runover resources, see record # 8662. It includes video and still images of
driveway runover prevention resources and related newspaper clippings
selected and shot at the Safekids Information & Resource Centre.
It features an interview with a family who experienced a driveway runover
incident and interviews with Dr. Philip Morreau (Paediatric Surgeon)
and Manukau City Councillor Alf Filipaina (NZ Police Pacific Community
Liaison Officer).
This DVD features the ‘community driveway runover prevention education
kit’, see record # 8797.
The video is also available at YouTube and at:
http://www.snapparazzi.co.nz/portfolio/injury-free-counties-manukau
And see also:
http://www.childsafety.co.nz/
Reference number 9148
Paediatric driveway run-over injuries: Time to redesign?
Hsiao, Kai Hsun, Clinton Newbury, Nita Bartlett, Rangi Dansey, Philip
Morreau, James Hamill.
The New Zealand Medical Journal 123 (1298) July 2009, 8 p.
Starship Children’s Hospital
Starship Children’s Trauma Service
University of Auckland
Aims - To investigate the demographic, accident, and environmental
characteristics associated with driveway run-over injuries in order to
identify potentially modifiable factors and prevention strategies.
Conclusion - The absence of physical separation between driveways
and children’s play and living areas may predispose to driveway injuries.
Further research is needed to investigate the ideal way to implement such
separation in current properties and future property developments.”
Reference number 9167
Driveway accidents in New Zealand.
Beasly, Spencer W.
The New Zealand Medical Journal 123 (1298) July 2009, 3 p.
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Christchurch Hospital.
Editorial commenting on the research article “Paediatric driveway runover
injuries: Time to redesign?” (record # 9167). Also discusses other
recent research which looks at: human behaviour, driveway design, car
design.
Reference number 9168
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www.safekids.org.nz. We are always pleased to help with all your
child injury prevention enquiries.
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John Campbell