October is here with excitement, anticipation and preparations for Halloween. Haunted houses, parties and trick-or-treating are supposed to be scary, but only on an imaginary level. Scary for real, like being hit by a car, should be avoided at all cost. Look at the curve below. With a few precautionary steps and some good reflectors, we could make a joint effort to push that Halloween spike of child fatalities down! Want to join?
While your kids are busy figuring out their costume, with which friends to trick-or-treat and which houses to visit, make sure to bring up the importance of reflectors and the rules of the road/sidewalk with them. Take practice walks in the dark to get them used to following the rules and be safe – cross at intersections, preferably at crosswalks, walk on sidewalks and wear lots of reflectors. We launched funflector® Halloween reflectors a couple of years ago to provide alternatives to not-so-cool reflective tape and have expanded the Halloween collection this year with a bat and a which’s hat.
Check out our Halloween safety post from last year if you are interested in more details!
The funflector team