Accidents can happen any time, any place and anywhere. Prevention may be the best offense, but that doesn’t count a ready defense. Developing a safety plan – and being ready to use it — can make a difference whether you’re faced with a minor fender bender or a destructive storm.

Here are some road safety tips for walking .

a. Use supervised or controlled crossing points such as pedestrian crossings and traffic lights, wherever possible.

b. At pedestrian crossings, wait until all traffic has stopped before crossing the road. It’s a good idea to make eye contact with the car drivers before you step off the pavement.

c. If there is no formal crossing point, make sure you cross away from buses, parked cars and corners so that motorists can easily see you.

d. Keep one step back from the kerb before you cross.

e. Look and listen for traffic in all directions. If there is traffic coming, wait until it has passed. Look and listen for traffic again. When there is no traffic coming walk quickly straight across the road, looking each way for traffic.