Gearing Up for All Hallows’ Eve Festivities
On Monday many little ghosts and goblins will again be out on our streets to celebrate the arrival of Halloween with the fun of trick-or-treating. However, the recent statistics compiled by the National Transportation Safety Administration about All Hallows’ Eve are truly ghastly and all too real. October 31st consistently ranks as one of the top three days for pedestrian related injuries and fatalities every year.
However, there are plenty of ways for kids stay safe on Halloween, and spokesperson Dan Coon with AAA of Washington shared a few of those with KOHO 101.
Children aren’t the only ones who need to exercise additional cautions on Halloween. Coon says an adult’s responsibilities are even greater, especially when it comes to alcohol and driving…
A chilling 45% of all motor vehicle deaths on Halloween involve drunken or impaired driving. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says reducing your speed is one of the best ways to stay safe, noting that a car travelling just ten miles an hour slower can be the difference between life and death.
A few other safety tips, especially for kids, include looking both ways and listening for traffic before crossing a street, always crossing at the corner and never between parked vehicles and for everyone in a car to wear their safety belts.
And a further heads up about what you might be watching out for more of this Halloween, the most popular costumes in 2016 for boys are Batman, Spiderman, Superman, Darth Vader and Captain America, while the girls prefer princesses, witches, Wonder Woman, DC Comics’ Harley Quinn and Rey from Star Wars – The Force Awakens.
Zombies and animals of all shapes and sizes remain popular costumes for both genders, and less popular but still very trendy for this year’s big masquerade are David Bowie and Hillary Clinton.