SAFETY ON THE ROAD
Every day people are killed while crossing the road. Most of these people are old people and children. Old people are often killed because they usually cannot see or hear very well. Children are killed because they are careless. They forget to look and listen before they cross the road. A car, truck or bus cannot stop very quickly. If the vehicle is going very fast it will travel many metres before it stops. Pedestrians do not always understand this. They think a car can stop within a few metres. The faster a car is travelling, the longer it takes to stop.