Plans for more 20mph speed limits
The Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership is looking at extending its current scheme beyond primary schools to give children between the ages of 11 to 18 greater protection on their school journey.
The safety zones can include zig-zag road markings, 20mph speed limits and speed humps.
Road safety experts believe they have a greater impact in cutting motorists' speed than road signs.
Research in 2005 showed that drivers were slowing down an average of 3mph and, in some instances, dropping their speed from 33mph to 28mph when entering a designated safety area.
Greville Burgess, the partnership's principal road safety co-ordinator, said he was hopeful that work to assess the current impact of the safety zones would soon take place.
He said: "Another survey needs to be done thoroughly and impartially. I will be looking at a full evaluation in the not too distant future.
"Safety zones are designed to reduce the risk to children and, although the regulations are not legally binding, co-operation to enforce them is required.
"We do it because we want to work in partnership with schools and communities to make the areas safer."
Mr Burgess also said that recent research by the partnership had also shown that the number of collisions taking place outside schools during the school day was very small.
He added: "When we look into collision data, the number of incidents, such as collisions or near-misses, are very, very rare."
He said that the biggest number of injuries to children suffered in these incidents involved those within the car rather than cyclists or pedestrians.
Safety zones include advisory 20mph speed limits and zigzag road markings.
Martin Hollingsworth, county council senior highways officer, said: "A letter was sent to each school in the county in early September last year, to invite applications for school safety zones.
"There are 380 schools in Lincolnshire and around 115 have sent responses and inquiries."
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