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School run drivers risk car accident death and injury during daily trips
It is a worrying prospect wondering if the next car accident on the school run will involve your child. Terrible to think about - one poor driving error could bring misery and a lifetime's remorse for many.
Long lines of cars across the UK weave their way up to school gates in daily trips to drop off youngsters. Vehicles could be damaged, and most alarming of all, children face serious injury or death at any point.
To me, it's remarkable the worst doesn't happen more often.
The Highway Code appears to be a dim and distant memory for most parents and guardians as the regular mission unfolds in front of them each day - to get little Johnny to the entrance ASAP.
Like some kind of heat-seeking missiles, parent drivers approach schools in the same way, I'm sure. That is, "I've got to get somewhere else after this, I must drop off my child(ren) pronto."
Sure enough, they edge in front of other parents, claiming a metre or two every so often as they treat the run-up and snarl-up getting to school as if some sort of polite style of road rage.
Everyone knows they must appear to drive more considerately - this is their children's school after all, not the M25.
But at the same time, while the polite faces are working, behind the masks are mums and dads determined to do 'the drop' as fast as the filtering system allows.
It is the haste and pressure to move quickly that could be the main cause of an accident.
A recent study by Sainsbury's Car Insurance has shown eight per cent of school run drivers - more than 1.6 million people in Britain - have been involved in an accident during 'the run'.
I remember a neighbouring school during my teenage years suffered a terrible tragedy. It involved one of the buses that were always picking up children outside school.
A schoolboy became caught under the rear wheels of the bus and crushed. It was many days before his life-support system had to be turned off.
Only then were buses barred from the school grounds and new safety processes introduced to help children.
Another fatality happened at my secondary school. As a young teenager crossed the road, he was struck by a car and died instantly. The school was in mourning for weeks.
Tragic - but more upsetting is knowing that all accidents are avoidable, probably more so on the school run when parents know they must drive more slowly and take extra care.
The Sainsbury's research - see the car insurance website for full details - proved men, not women, tended to have more accidents on the school run.
About five per cent of school drivers were in crashes with other drivers that's one in 20 drivers.
Such a statistic highlights justified concerns that injury or fatal accidents are just a matter of time unless school run drivers quickly improve their problem driving.
This is further exacerbated when the study again proves that many of these motorists admit to poor driving to and from school because they fear they will be late.
In conclusion, if someone could bang heads together, school run drivers could be top of the list to qualify. Car accidents here are avoidable parents just need to see the light and drive with more care.
