Booster seat - aged children are twice as likely to suffer serious injury or death in a car
crash than younger children but a new study shows they may be less likely to have car seats inspected for proper use.
Not exact matches
In 2013, more
than 127,250
children aged 12 and
younger were injured in motor vehicle
crashes and 638 died.
Based on 2007 - 2011
crash data, 84 of the estimated 267 annual deaths in backover
crashes in the United States were
children younger than 5, and 70 deaths were people 70 and older.
The rate of motor vehicle
crash deaths per million
children younger than 13 is less
than a quarter of what it was in 1975.
An Australian review of deaths of
children younger than 5 in low - speed vehicle run - over
crashes, including backovers, found that more
than 80 percent were
children younger than 3.
Most of these car
crashes occur in high traffic areas and at night, but no matter where a pedestrian is hit, s / he is in far more danger of being seriously injured
than the driver involved in the
crash, and our most vulnerable citizens —
young children and the elderly — are the most of risk.