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Charity calls for 20mph limit in all towns and cities at launch of Beep Beep! Day

The road safety charity Brake is calling on MPs to listen to parents and enable local authorities to implement widespread 20mph limits, as it launches its annual 'Beep Beep! Day' campaign, a UK-wide initiative for early years settings and childminders.

Brake wants the Government to fund local authorities to implement 20mph speed limits in towns, villages and cities, alongside other measures to protect people on foot.

A survey of 1,000 parents by Brake, in partnership with Churchill Car Insurance, found nine in ten parents believe that fast traffic poses a danger to families and children in their community, and eight in ten would support a 20mph speed limit around homes, schools and shops.

Three in four parents said they would also walk more if the safety of nearby roads was improved by, for instance, putting in more crossings and lowering speed limits.

A Beep Beep! road safety day was held at Guildford Children’s Centre in Surrey today.

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