As a motorist:

• Watch your speed Slow down in residential neighborhoods and obey all traffic signs and signals. Drive at least 5 miles below the posted speed limit to give yourself extra time to react to children who may dart out in front of your vehicle.
• Watch for children walking on roadways, median and curbs. If these little ghosts and goblins are wearing dark costumes, they will be hard to see at night.
• Watch carefully for children crossing the street. Children may not be paying attention to traffic and cross the street mid-block or between parked cars.
• Be prepared for children to dart out into the street at any time, especially from behind parked cars
• Carefully enter and exit driveways and alleys.
• Turn on your vehicle’s headlights, even in the daylight. The lights make you more visible.
• Broaden your visual scanning – look left and right into yards and front porches.

As a parent:

• Make sure an adult or an older responsible youth will be supervising children under the age of 12.
• Plan and discuss the route your trick-or-treaters intend to follow.
• Instruct your child to travel only in familiar areas and along an established route.
• Teach your child to stop at well-lit houses and never to enter a stranger's home.
• Establish a return time.
• Tell your child not to eat any treats until they return home.
• Review trick-or-treat safety precautions, including pedestrian and traffic safety rules.

As a trick-or-treater:

• Be bright at night Wear retro-reflective tape on your costume so you can easily be seen.
• Wear a disguise that does not obstruct your vision.
• Stay on sidewalks, not in the street.
• If there are no sidewalks, walk on the left side of the road, facing traffic.
• Look both ways and listen for traffic before crossing the street.
• Cross only at the corner.
• Never cross between parked vehicles or mid-block.
• Trick-or-treat in a group if someone older cannot go with you.
• Tell your parents where you are going.