The best way to avoid traffic accident ought to be not to drive at all - unfortunately, while safety is getting only better and better for the driver and passengers inside the car, the same cannot be said for the pedestrians and bikers out there.

There seems to be a growing trend in Norway that parents drive their children to school because they consider the school road to be too unsafe for the child to walk to school. Of course, they are only adding to the problem. We're quite lucky to have a reasonably safe route from home to school - the most dangerous part of the trip is actually right outside the school yard, where hurried parents are doing their best to get their children delivered by car to the school in the shortest possible time.