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At the law office of Clearwater Child Injury Attorney James W. Dodson, we all too often encounter cases where children have been injured traveling to and from school.  We envision a world in which all children are free from harm, and child safety is the rule. Florida is part of the nationwide Safe Routes to School initiative.

What Safe Routes to School Hopes to Achieve

Among the goals of the program are to increase bicycle, pedestrian, and traffic safety, and decrease traffic congestion, to have more children walking and bicycling to schools. Other benefits will be improved community safety, accessibility and increased community interest in bicycle and pedestrian accommodations. 

How to Achieve Safe Routes to School

These goals can be accomplished by encouraging community involvement and improving partnerships among parents, schools, municipalities, and community organizations, and by improving the physical environment to increase the ability to walk and bicycle to school.

What are the 5 E’s of Safe Routes to School Recommended by the Federal Highway Administration?

• Engineering to create infrastructure surrounding schools to reduce speeds and conflicts with motor vehicles and safer crossings, walkways, trails, and bikeways
• Education to teach bicycling and walking safety skills and driver safety around schools
• Encouragement through activities to promote walking and bicycling 
• Enforcement by police of speed limits, yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks, and proper walking and bicycling behaviors; community enforcement, e.g. crossing guard programs
• Evaluation by monitoring and documenting outcomes

Clearwater Child injury attorney Jim Dodson endorses this program and encourages readers to support its goals to make his vision of child safety a reality.

Photo Provided by St. Pete Times

In our law firm’s bike giveaway “Bikes for Kids for Christmas” we were lucky enough to give 5 bicycles to some local area kids who were well deserving.  We were featured in a news article published by the St. Petersburg Times this past week and are proud to be part of this special giveaway and provide new bicycles  along with our co-sponsors, Bicycle Outfitters in Seminole, to these five children.

The article titled “Bicycle Giveaway at Seminole Shop Makes Five Youngsters Smile” features the story behind the five children and how their selection  came about. Read the article and let us know what you think about it! Bicycle safety was also a top concern and all of the children were provided helmets from the bike shop as well as a free bicycle safety precaution checklist from our firm .

We are proud to help serve and provide for children in our community.