PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 6 December 1979, pp. 860-861
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Motor Vehicle Occupant Deaths in Young Children

Susan P. Baker MPH1

1 Division of Forensic Pathology, The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore

Motor vehicle occupant deaths of US children aged 0 to 12 years were analyzed. Surprisingly, the death rate is highest for children less than 6 months old: 9.0/100,000, dropping to 4.5/100,000 for 1-year-olds and about 3/100,000 for children aged 6 to 12. The second and third months of age are a period of especially high risk. More attention should therefore be focused on protecting infants from injury and death resulting from motor vehicle crashes.

Submitted on March 19, 1979
Accepted on April 16, 1979




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