POLÃTICAS PÚBLICAS DE SEGURANÇA VIÃRIA PARA O TRANSPORTE DE CRIANÇAS: O CASO BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The actions of traffic safety, result of appropriate public policies, play today a key role in reversing the tragic scenario of road accidentality in the world. Based on the tripod of traffic safety, several countries have invested in actions in the areas of education, engineering and enforcement. The pandemic that reaches from developing countries to developed ones, cause thousands of victims annually, irrespective of age, gender or economic class. As a general objective this work presents, through exploratory research, the current Brazilian road accidentality scenario involving children. Specifically, it seeks to address what are the current policies and public initiatives to mitigate the traffic fatality of children, highlighting campaigns and the Resolution 277/2008, which provides for the use of restraint systems for transporting children. The results show a direct relationship between the policies and actions and the decline in infant mortality. Index Terms - Brazil, children, public policy, traffic accidents.