@article{ref1,
title="Young children in traffic: how can they cope",
journal="Young children",
year="1978",
author="Seefeldt, Carol and Ross, Sylvia P.",
volume="33",
number="4",
pages="68-73",
abstract="<p>Understanding the normal growth and developmental patterns of young children provides teachers and parents with in- sights into why children behave as they do when they are around traffic.  Young children's physical development makes them a target for pedestrian accidents. Children are short; under age six, eye levels are typically less than 40 inches above the ground. They simply cannot see over the hoods of cars, shrubbery, fences, mounds of snow, or other objects near the road. Not being able to see approaching traffic may be one reason why children dart into the street apparently without regard for potential hazards.   Visual development is also incomplete. Young children require a much longer time to focus than an adult; sometimes what they see is blurred and at other times they seem to focus on only small aspects of a scene.  Young children's intellectual capabilities ...  https://www.jstor.org/stable/42643502</p>",
language="en",
issn="0044-0728",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}