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many foolish and unsafe acts,” said Dr. Mack I. Shanholtz, Commissioner of the Virginia State Health Department, “but the motorist should realize that they don’t deserve a death sentence.”
The BULLETIN also stated that older pedestrians make mistakes because their perceptions and reactions have slowed, because they have not accustomed themselves to the changes in modem traffic conditions and because they feel they are going to be accorded the same courtesies in traffic that their age brings them in other areas of life.
Child pedestrian safety efforts by school and police officials help to educate school-age children. “But because a child’s behavior pattern is fairly well established before he reaches school, the parent remains the greatest single influence in the child’s development as a safe and self-reliant pedestrian”, cautions Dr. Shanholtz.
Beaded, retro-reflective material for clothing has caught the eye of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. HEW’s “BE SAFE, BE SEEN” program urges American’s to take precautions to reduce pedestrian accidents. Research indicates that after age 20, the amount of light needed to see objects doubles every thirteen years. At age 60, one needs roughly eight times as much light to see after dark as well as at age
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