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Sterling boy wins Put the Brakes on Fatalities poster contest
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Sterling’s Riley Leake and his mother, Catherine Leake, with the bike he received for winning the safety poster contest.

Seven-year-old Riley Leake of Sterling is one of the Kansas winners in the 2021 Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day poster contest, sponsored annually by the Kansas Department of Transportation and other traffic safety organizations.

Riley is the son of Catherine Leake.

Contest winners receive a bicycle from the Kansas Turnpike Authority and a helmet from Safe Kids Kansas. 

The idea of the contest is getting children to think about traffic safety and presenting those ideas on posters. A total of 638 children in Kansas, ages 5 to 13, participated this year.

Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day is a nationwide initiative to improve traffic safety and decrease traffic deaths.