{"id":175,"date":"2014-02-13T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T10:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kartingnation.co.uk\/?p=175"},"modified":"2018-07-10T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:54:34","slug":"how-safe-is-karting-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/how-safe-is-karting-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"How Safe is Karting for Kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kids-Karting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-185\" alt=\"Kids Karting\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kids-Karting-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kids-Karting-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kids-Karting.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parents often ask if karting is safe. We think the main reason they ask this is that they think of their own experience driving on our roads. But is this a fair comparison? Yes, they will be driving a vehicle, but unlike the real roads there are numerous checks and measures that are strictly enforced and safety precautions are standard. So lets sum up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your children will be in a strictly controlled environment<\/li>\n<li>They will be fully briefed and instructed before they get into a kart<\/li>\n<li>They will be wearing a race suit and a full face crash helmet<\/li>\n<li>They will be in a very small and manageable group<\/li>\n<li>Everyone will be travelling in the same direction<\/li>\n<li>Their speed will almost certainly be limited to about 20mph<\/li>\n<li>They will be surrounded by deformable safety barriers<\/li>\n<li>There will definitely be a first-aider on site<\/li>\n<li>Each kart will have been checked on a daily basis with paperwork to back this up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you still worried about how safe go-karting is?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents often ask if karting is safe. We think the main reason they ask this is that they think of their own experience driving on our roads. But is this a fair comparison? Yes, they will be driving a vehicle, but unlike the real roads there are numerous checks and measures that are strictly enforced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-karting","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kartingnation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}