Do creepy-looking ‘child bollards’ make our roads any safer?

Child-shaped bollards have been springing up near some schools, with the aim of making drivers more cautious. But is there any danger they could have the opposite effect?

They may look like Chucky’s sober cousin, but the child-shaped bollards installed in the village of Iver, Buckinghamshire, are there to make the roads safer.

The creepy-looking statues, which have come in for criticism, are intended to make it clear to drivers that there is a school – and real, living children – in the vicinity.

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2wAZAWQ