ΝΕΑ, from Brake, the road safety charity.

April news We're pleased to announce that our new road safety website for children, families and teachers, is now live and we need your help. Brake Zebras is full of free resources and teaching materials to ensure your children understand road safety. We’d be very grateful if you could visit brakezebras.org both with and without the children that you care for, in whatever setting you feel is most appropriate, and answer as many of these questions as you are able. Email your completed questions to zebras@brake.org.uk.

Kids Walk 2019 Sign up now for Brake's Kids Walk 2019 and be the first to hear about this year's exciting news. The project aims to inspire and engage children about the dangers they face and help Brake call on grown-ups to make their streets safer through free resources. Find out more.

Beep Beep! Day Our first national Beep Beep! Day on Wednesday 20 March was lots of fun, with more than 400 schools across the country getting involved. Take a look at what everyone got up to. You can sign up now for our next national date on Wednesday 17 July and be the first to access our brand new resources.

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Brake comments as EU lawmakers reach agreement on lifesaving technology

This week was a big one for road safety with the EU provisionally agreeing a deal mandating various lifesaving driver assistance vehicle technologies on all new vehicles from 2022. Brake put out a comment on this which you can find here which generated lots of media coverage for us with appearances on Sky News, BBC News and ITV news, plus various radio stations, and even CBS in America and a radio station in New Zealand. We were also on the front page of the Daily Mirror.