Most parents share a concern about road safety and their children. Rural parents, including farm parents, have special cause for concern. Compared with urban areas:

• almost three times as many young children are killed as passengers in vehicles in rural areas of Australia
• twice as many young children in rural areas are killed as pedestrians in low speed impacts with vehicles.

Yet only one third of children live in regional and remote areas - outside of major cities. Farms are a special, smaller subset of rural Australia and have their own special risks. Children on farms:

• are often driven round farms where roads/tracks may be of poor quality
• regularly use motorbikes for transport or leisure
• are often near tractors, trucks and other mobile farm machinery.

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