In 1992, motor vehicle-related injury was the leading cause of injury-specific death in the United States for children aged zero to fourteen years. In the five to nine years age group, childhood pedestrian injury was exceeded only by motor vehicle occupant injuries as the leading cause of death. The prevention of these injuries is a multifactorial problem involving individual characteristics of the child, environmental design, and the mutual dependence between the child and his or her environment. This article considers the plethora of descriptive and analytical research and proposes suitable strategies to reduce the rate of child pedestrian injury.
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