Average of 158 child casualties on North Yorkshire roads each year
Yorkshire and the Humberside has the fourth highest number of child road casualty incidents in the country
The true extent of child casualties on North Yorkshire's roads has been revealed with over 150 incidents on average each year.
It's as hundreds of children across the region are talking part in a road safety walk to raise awareness.
1,750 Yorkshire and the Humber schoolchildren will march for safer roads as 36 children from the region are killed or injured every week.
The national project, run by road safety charity Brake in partnership with insurance company esure, sees Shaun and his flock help youngsters learn key road safety messages and call on their grown-ups to make roads safer, so more children can enjoy the health and planet-saving benefits of walking, cycling and scooting to school.
The figures for North Yorkshire, show a decrease of 56% across the five-year period, from 222 in 2015 to 97 in 2019. However, other local authorities in Yorkshire and the Humber have not followed suit.
In York, the average per year is 62 and 2019 there were 47 incidents.