Making our Road Transport Safer for Children

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As part of the Third United Nations Global Road Safety Week ( 4-10 May 2015), Barry Wilson was pleased to act as moderator to the forum “Making our Road Transport Safer for Children”, organized by the Community for Road Safety (CRS) in association with the Hong Kong Childhood Injury Prevention and Research Association (CIPRA) and Designing Hong Kong.

The forum was held to draw together related professionals in education, engineering, medicine, enforcement and interested public to share experience and formulate solutions to better protect children on our roads. The forum also aimed to further attract the attention of Government and the society at large concerning children and road safety.

Speakers and panelists were as follows:

Statistics on Child Road Casualities in Hong Kong  Dr Joey Li | Research officer | Department of Civil Engineering | University of Hong Kong

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Road Transport Accidents  Dr Kitty K Wu JP | President | Asian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Geo-spatial Analysis on Burden of Childhood Traffic Injuries in Hong Kong 2001-2012  Dr CHOW Chun Bong | Clinical Professor | Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and                   Department of Community Medicine | University of Hong Kong

Introduction to Road Safety Council HUI Cheung-tai | Senior Inspector | Road Safety Unit | Traffic Branch Headquarter | Hong Kong Police Force

Cycling Injuries in Children  Dr KOU Sio-kei | Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Defensive Driving for School Bus Drivers  Dr Patrick WONG | Director | Learning and Teaching Training Centre

Creating Awareness for Better Streets Paul ZIMMERMAN | CEO | Designing Hong Kong

Children-friendly Road Infrastructure 
Ir Julian TH KWONG | Chairman| Community for Road Safety

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