Rob Gifford, member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety has commented on the dangers to child pedestrians in UK roads.
Mr Gifford said during BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the safety of child pedestrians was being put at risk by the number of parents driving their children to school.
'One of the things that concerns parents, understandably, is the thought that their children might be run down when crossing the road or might be run down when walking or playing outside their house,' he said.
Concern for their children, Mr Gifford added, then leads even more parents to take their children to school by car, which exposes the few children who still walk to even more risk.
The overall rate of road deaths for all children under 16 rose by 20 per cent between 2005 and 2006 to 169 total deaths.
According to PACTS figures, the proportion of primary school children being driven to school had risen from 38 to 41 per cent.
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