Children and Driveway / Backover Accidents l Seattle Child Injury Lawyer

• Cervical Spine Fractures Sustained by Young Children in Forward-Facing Car Seats   
  Child passenger safety restraint laws have reduced the number of children killed or injured in motor vehicle accidents in the past few years. However, the increased used of child safety seats has brought with it an increase in the misuse of these devices. High cervical spine injuries sustained by five children less than 2 years of age while in forward-facing car seats are described. In the cases of three children, the car safety seat use was correct. Misuse of car seats and anatomic and biomechanical factors in the cervical spines of infants and young children appear to have contributed to the occurrence of these previously rare injuries. Like seat belts, car safety seats are now a factor in child passenger injury characteristics, and therefore, car safety seat design merits reevaluation. In light of this development, public and parent education by health care professionals concerning the correct use of car safety seats is necessary.
• Driveway Accidents   
  Facts, figures, and statistics on children injured in driveway accidents.
• Children In Traffic Accidnets   
  The part that children play in traffic accidents has been studied by numerous workers from differing points of view.
• STUDY: Traffic Accidents Involving Child Pedestrians
• The two papers that follow report the results of painstaking epidemiological work on pedestrian accidents involving children. Because these papers relate the age of the child to specific behavior patterns that result in accidents and to specific injury patterns that result from such accidents, they would appear to offer a sound empirical base for the development of a variety of countermeasures, whether such countermeasures are intended to reduce accidents or to limit the severity of the resulting injuries.