Fatal pedestrian injuries to young children: a different pattern of injury.
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Fatal pedestrian injuries to young children: a different pattern of injury.
All pedestrian vehicle collision fatalities to children less than five years of age in Washington State were evaluated for a five-year period using State death certificates, coroners' reports, and police records. Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatali...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.78.7.793