CINCINNATI, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. safety expert advises parents not let a child under age 10 to cross the street alone and be sure children wear brightly colored clothing when walking.
Injury prevention coordinator Susan Laurence of Trauma Services at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio also says bright colors might make a child more visible to traffic.
"As children begin preparing to return to school, it's important for parents and children to go over safety tips together," Laurence says in a statement.
Laurence recommends parents help children:
-- Choose the safest route and walk it with them.
-- Learn to recognize and obey all traffic signals and markings, to cross at corners or crosswalks and be sure to look in all directions.
-- Remember never to enter the street from between parked cars or from behind bushes or shrubs and to be extra alert in bad weather.
-- Cross the street only at a corner or crosswalk.
-- Be extra alert in bad weather.
-- Never dart out into traffic.

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