According to Insurance industry figures, more than 1,000 children every month are being injured on the local roads, worryingly, around British schools.
The government have said the data used was quite crude, and that road deaths were actually at a record low with the number of children injured having fallen considerably in recent years.
Figures suggest that there are regional differences, with the top area for collisions in the six-year period, 2006 to 2011, being London which accounted for a full 13% of the child casualties nationally, and a full 22% of collisions overall.
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As always – take care out there!
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