Child Accident Injury Research & Statistics l Seattle Lawyer for Children

• The National Survey of the Use of Car Seats [PDF]   
• Backover and Non-Crash EventsSpecial Crash Investigations [PDF]   
  Protecting Children in and Around Cars
• Child Dies In Car Back-up Accident   
  A 14-month old Hannah Bryant died Tuesday afternoon after a family member drove over the child while leaving her Kingston-area home. Investigators believe the child had wandered behind the family car and was out of view of the driver when the incident occurred. The driver then backed over the child.
• The area behind your vehicle can be a child killing zone   
  Every year, children are injured and killed because drivers (in some cases, parents) don't see them while backing up. According to KIDS AND CARS (www.kidsandcars.org), a nonprofit group that works to improve child safety around cars, at least 50 children are backed over every week in the U.S. Forty-eight are treated in hospital emergency rooms and at least 2 children die. There were 474 fatal backover accidents between 2001 and 2006, which represents almost half of all non-traffic fatalities that involved children.
• SUV backover deaths: What can be done?  
  More than 2,400 children are backed-up over every year in the United States. Of those, about 100 are killed. In most cases, those children are run over by a parent or other relative.
• Non-traffic auto accidents involving kids 15 years or younger  [PDF]   
  U.S. Fatalities by Type: Non-traffic auto accidents involving kids 15 years or younger
• Teenagers Behind the Wheel of a Car   
  Car accidents account for one-third of all deaths of 16- to 18-year-olds, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.