Young children think cars can stop as quickly as they can. Limited experience in traffic. Children don't perceive parked cars as visibility hazards. They also cannot quickly pinpoint sounds in traffic. Children tend to focus on one activity at a time and have difficulty crossing the street to retrieve a ball were oblivious to traffic.
Children act on impulse.
A child may run across the street because they see a friend without checking for traffic. Nationally, more than 50,000 children and adolescents will be injured as pedestrians and 1800 of these children will dies from these injuries each year. Understand what your child is capable of. Ask children to explain and show what they would do in these traffic situations . Walk the route children take to school.