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KinderParking Research: Parking Lot Car/Pedestrian Injuries
SafeKids.org:
http://www.safekids.org/about/about_prevention.html
"In the United States and most other industrialized nations, accidental injury has surpassed disease to become the number one cause of death among children ages 14 and under."
Children's Hospital, Central California:
http://www.childrenscentralcal.org/content.asp?id=1157&parent=1&groupid=G0066
Although less children are walking and exposing themselves to the risks of traffic, pedestrian injury remains the second leading cause of unintentional-injury related death among children between the ages of 5 and 14. Children are at an increased risk for pedestrian injury and death because the traffic rules and risks often exceed their cognitive, developmental, behavioral, physical, and sensory abilities, according to the National SAFE KIDS Campaign. In addition, parents and caregivers often overestimate their child's
traffic skills. One specific age group, ages 1 to 2, is at increased risk for non-traffic related pedestrian injuries, such as when a car backs up in the driveway, parking lot, or on sidewalks. Unfortunately, injuries sustained by child pedestrians are often severe.
SafeKids.org:
http://www.usa.safekids.org/content_documents/Ped_facts.pdf
The total annual cost of traffic-related pedestrian death and injury among children ages 14 and under is $5.2 billion.
The majority of child pedestrian deaths and injuries are traffic-related. Although pedestrian injuries are not as common as motor vehicle occupant injuries, a disproportionate number of the injuries sustained by child pedestrians are severe.
http://www.usa.safekids.org/content_documents/Ped_facts.pdf
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/809906.PDF
In 2004, there were nearly 61 million children age 14 and younger in the United States. This age group made up 21 percent of the total U.S. resident population in 2004 (2005 data not yet available).
Every day in the United States, an average of 5 children age 14 and younger were killed and 640 were injured every day in motor vehicle crashes during 2005.
There were a total of 4,881 pedestrian fatalities in 2005. The 14 and under age group accounted for 339 (7%) of those fatalities.
On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash every 108 minutes and injured in a traffic crash every 8 minutes.
In 2005, a total of 64,000 pedestrians were injured, 16,000 of those injured were age 14 and younger
During 2005, 82 percent (of the fatalities) occurred at non-intersection locations. |
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