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LADY IN THE WHALE was part of the Touring Museum for Toddlers which delighted a packed audience last week
at Presentation House, North Vancouver. The travelling minstrel show aimed at pre-school children and their
parents features costume whales, frogs, flowers and dinosaurs to teach the youngsters about nature. It is sponsored

by the National Museums of Canada, Friends of the B.C. Provincial Museum and the National Museum of. Natural
Sciences, (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

1 Child fatalities

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shocking’

oO Elementary school children in British Columbia

These grim figures are

contained in a report: and
: .survey cémmissioned by the

Insurance Corporation of.
B.C. and the B.C. Year of

‘| --the Child and the Family and:

carried out by the Motor
Vehicle Branch. .

Hugh Earle, the insurance
corporation’s road safety
manager, says, “The survey’s

results are shocking. Every:

driver, every parent, every
person concerned. for. the
-safety of children should
take note of the survey.”

“Death and injury lurk
everywhere for school
children,” ‘says the report,

. “at play, onthe way to

school and while cycling.”

In cold statistics: 53
children aged five to 15 were
killed in traffic accidents in
1978, — five more than in
1977,

are being killed in traffic accidents at the rate of _
one a week and seven are injured every days)

In 1978° a total of 2,692

children aged'six to 15 were:

injured in. traffic -accidents
— more than seven children
every day of the year.” -

Other highlights of: the —

report:  « ;

© More traffic injuries occur. -

in June and July than in any.
other month; by far the

smallest number occur in-
January.

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® Most traffic injuries and
fatalities occur on Thursdays

‘and Saturdays.

* Two ‘thirds of all traffic
fatalities and injuries in the.
age group, six to 15 years,
occur in daylight, par-
ticularly in the afternoon.

. The report’ states- that
more fatal traffic accidents

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