Abstract

Road safety is the methods and measures for reducing the risk of person using the road network for being killed or seriously injured. Children are nation’s biggest asset. Every year 1, 40,590 people die due to road traffic accidents. Road safety is the necessity of each human being to protect oneself and other’s life because there is day to day increase the number of the traffic and that leads road traffic accidents. As adults, we are responsible for young children’s safety on roads. With the help of creating awareness among people that can prevent road traffic accidents. The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge of school students regarding road safety. The study adopted a pre - experimental research design to assess the knowledge of students regarding road safety in selected senior secondary school of Amritsar. The sample size was 500 school students. Convenient Sampling technique was used. The tool was two sections, section 1 consists of a self-structured demographic questionnaire and section 2 consists of a self-structured knowledge questionnaire. The result indicates that out of 500 samples, Pre- Test the majority 5.6% had very good knowledge, 17.2% had Good knowledge, 53.8% of sample had Average knowledge, 23.4% had poor knowledge, Post- Test the majority 46.6% had very good knowledge, 45.6% had Good knowledge, 7.8% of sample had Average knowledge, and 0% had poor knowledge.

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