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Safe Kids Worldwide, a global organization dedicated to preventing injuries in children, has unique expertise in the area of promoting road safety for children. The Safe Kids Buckle Up Program™, Safe Kids’ signature child passenger safety program that started in the United States and is being replicated globally, uses research, education, awareness and public policy to protect children in and around cars.
Safe Kids Worldwide is initiating the Safe Roads I Safe Kids campaign to reduce preventable deaths and lifelong injuries resulting from traffic collisions involving children. More than 500 children are killed every day as a result of traffic collisions, and tens of thousands are injured, often suffering lifelong disabilities. By 2015, road traffic injuries will be the leading health burden for children over the age of 5 years in developing countries. Unless we take action now, the global toll of traffic injuries will explode, placing millions more children at risk.
THE PROBLEM
A growing epidemic of traffic injuries is devastating the next generation of children around the globe.
- Traffic collisions are the number one cause of death among children ages 5 to 19 in the United States and around the world.
- More than 500 children are killed every day as a result of road traffic collisions, and tens of thousands are injured, often suffering lifelong disabilities.
- Children living in poorer nations are most at risk.
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Every day, more than 500 children are killed in a road traffic collision, and tens of thousands are injured, often suffering lifelong disabilities. Unless we take action now, the global toll of traffic injuries will explode, placing millions of children at risk.
Top Recalls
11.20.2014 CPSC:Graco is voluntarily recalling 11 models of strollers due to finger amputation hazard. There were reports of finger injuries, including the amputation of fingertips. The folding hinge on the sides of the stroller can pinch a child’s finger, posing a laceration or amputation hazard. Nearly 5 million strollers are affected in the U.S. and about 200,000 in Canada.