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Traumatic Injury Rates

Traumatic injury is far and away the leading cause of death in children in the United States, and a major portion of those traumatic fatalities are due to traffic accidents — for ages 11 through 14, traffic accidents are the leading cause of mortality in the U.S. For the most recent year for which full data is available (2012), more than 1,100 children under the age of 15 died in traffic fatalities in this country, and more than 160,000 were injured. Protecting children from traffic accident injury has been a top goal of safety analysts and regulators for years.

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