Volvo teaches Greensboro children street safety in Safety Town program
Volvo's Stop, Look, Wave lesson landed in Greensboro Safety Town as recent pedestrian crashes showed why summer street safety matters.
Volvo brought its Stop, Look, Wave message to Greensboro’s Safety Town on Monday, June 22, putting 5- and 6-year-olds through street-crossing lessons in a hands-on summer setting.
Safety Town Greensboro runs for one week, two hours a day, and children do not have to live in Guilford County to attend. The program operates at Lewis Recreation Center and Barber Park, and it has been in Greensboro for more than 39 years. At Barber Park, the Greensboro Police Foundation welcomed its first campers and more than 100 children took part, with dozens of teen volunteers earning service-learning hours.
Volvo’s Stop, Look, Wave launched in 2015, has reached children in more than 30 countries, and teaches a simple sequence: stop, look both ways and wave to the driver before crossing. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration counted 7,080 pedestrian deaths and more than 71,000 injuries in the United States in 2024.
The Transportation Department is investing in connected trails, bike lanes and walkable streets, and the city’s BiPed plan remains part of broader transportation planning across the Greensboro Urban Area MPO, which includes most of unincorporated Guilford County and nearby towns such as Oak Ridge, Pleasant Garden, Sedalia, Stokesdale and Summerfield. The city has also moved ahead with crosswalk work on West Washington Street at Federal Place and a Greene Street two-way conversion set to begin June 29.
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