This cartoon teaches children to check their helmets, brakes, handlebars, and tires before riding.
Education
Bicycle Safety: What Every Parent Should Know
This document dispells myths of bicycling, outlines common types of bicycle/motor vehicles crashes, and offers safety information for parents when instructing children on bike riding.
Be a Safe Bike Driver: Younger Kids
This flyer offers a bicycle safety quiz as a tool for teaching older children how to safely ride their bikes on the road.
The sheet provides two short true/false quizzes to instruct young kids on safe riding practices. The reverse side is a letter to parents.
The site also provides a safety sheet for older kids.
Be a Safe Bike Driver: Older Kids
The 1-page being age appropriate document covers topics such as how the bicyclist should ensure they are seen by the drivers, how to check the bicycle for safety and proper helmet use.
Good Practices Guide for Bicycle Safety Education
The Good Practices Guide is a useful resource for educators who plan to develop bicycle safety education programs, or selecting the most effective existing bicycle safety education program for their curriculum needs.
The Good Practices Guide contains:
* 16 cases of bicycle safety education programs, describing the various components and what aspects were and were not successful.
Resource File:
Spanish-language Tips for Walking Safely to School
The Tips for Walking Safely to School offers children helpful messages and guidances on safe ways to walk to school. Topics include:
- Walking together
- Being visible
- Looking for traffic
- Crossing the street safely
For parents and adults, there is a Tips for Parents and Other Adults For Teaching Pedestrian Safety to Children.
California Walk to School Headquarters
The Walk to School Headquarters offer resources to encourage more adults and children to walk and bike to school together to raise awareness about:
Safe Routes to School
Website offers a host of downloadable Safe Routes to School related files including:
Safe Routes to School Toolkit
Oakland Pedestrian Safety Project (OPSP) website provides resources and links to information on developing, organizing and running a Safe Routes to School program. The information is classified according to the following 3 toolkits:
- Principal/Organizer Toolkit
- Teachers Toolkit
- Parents Toolkit
Safe Routes to School
Coalition for Sustainable Transportation (COAST) coordinates the efforts of 20 agency and community partners, including the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, the PTA Safety Committee, various government and law enforcement agencies, Traffic Solutions and the Diabetes Resource Center. COAST's website offers information to help develop a school zone safety area, a public awareness program, and an education and safety-training program.