Santa Monica Families for Safe Streets shares this list of safety tips for tonight. You can join their efforts to make Santa Monica a safer city to walk, bike, take transit or even drive a car, here.
Unfortunately, pedestrian fatalities increase on Halloween. Some tips to stay safe are:
- Bring a flashlight or lantern to make your presence known near cars. A bright one. Don’t be afraid to use strobe mode to be seen.
- Be a celebrating Dodgers fan and use air horns near cars.
- Trick-or-treat in areas of town where the City has made pedestrian safety improvements for children’s safety (avoid Santa Monica Blvd.)
- Use scary costumes or social shaming to scare drivers who are driving dangerously or distracted on Halloween.
- Hold your kids hand and teach them about being a defensive pedestrian.
- Dress as a traffic cone, or something else that drivers are conditioned to look out to as social commentary on how much power unsafe drivers have in our cities.
- Buy them the Designing Streets for Kids Guide so they know what safe streets can look like (this may be for future Halloweens.)
- (Only after trying the above) Avoid wearing dark costumes.
