{"id":57460,"date":"2026-10-12T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/putting-child-road-safety-in-the-spotlight-this-transport-month\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:45:05","slug":"putting-child-road-safety-in-the-spotlight-this-transport-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/putting-child-road-safety-in-the-spotlight-this-transport-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting child road safety in the spotlight this Transport Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wheel Well releases 2025 Child Road Safety Report as progress stalls at 1,000 child deaths<\/p>\n<p>New report shows an almost 80% reduction in child road deaths since 2012, but pedestrians continue to account for two-thirds of fatalities<\/p>\n<p>Wheel Well, South African non-profit organisation has released its Status of Child Road Safety: 2025 Report, highlighting significant progress in reducing child road deaths over the past 13 years, while warning that South Africa is reaching a plateau in protecting its youngest road users.<\/p>\n<p>The report records 1,034 child road deaths in 2025, compared with 5,087 in 2012. While the almost 80% reduction demonstrates the impact that sustained road-safety interventions can have, Wheel Well says the country cannot become complacent while more than 1,000 children continue to die on the roads each year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The progress we have made since 2012 is important, but the figure we need to focus on now is the 1,034 children who did not make it home in 2025,&rdquo;&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78837&#038;page=putting-child-road-safety-in-the-spotlight-this-transport-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheel Well releases 2025 Child Road Safety Report as progress stalls at 1,000 child deaths New report shows an almost 80% reduction in child road deaths since 2012, but pedestrians continue to account for two-thirds of fatalities Wheel Well, South African non-profit organisation has released its Status of Child Road Safety: 2025 Report, highlighting significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Wheel%20Well%20-%20AI%20genarated%20images%20to%20protect%20children.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Wheel%20Well%20-%20AI%20genarated%20images%20to%20protect%20children.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}