PUPILS are helping to highlight the dangers faced by children on roads all over the world as part of a United Nations safety scheme.

Youngsters at several primary schools across County Durham took part in the United Nations third Global Road Safety Week project called #SaveKidsLives.

The scheme aims to prevent road deaths internationally.

Children from several primary schools became Durham County Council junior road safety officers.

They were drawn from Woodhouse Community Primary School, St Helen Auckland Primary School and St Wilfrid’s Primary School, in Bishop Auckland.

Escomb Primary School, in Escomb, near to Bishop Auckland, Copeland Primary School, near to West Auckland and Whinfield Primary School, in Darlington, also took part.

The pupils readied such things as high-visibility jackets for the Recyke Y’Bike charity to be given to partner schools in Botswana and Tanzania, Africa.

Paul Watson, Durham County Council’s road safety manager, said: “More than 500 children across the globe lose their lives in traffic collisions every day and thousands more are injured.

“We have one of the best road safety records in the world in the UK.

“Our road safety team will be sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues in other parts of the world.”