%0 Journal Article
%T Motor vehicle occupant deaths in young children
%J Pediatrics
%D 1979
%A Baker, Susan Pardee
%V 64
%N 6
%P 860-861
%X Motor vehicle occupant deaths of US children aged 0 to 12 years were analyzed. Surprisingly, the death rate is highest for children less than 6 months old: 9.0/100,000, dropping to 4.5/100,000 for 1-year-olds and about 3/100,000 for children aged 6 to 12. The second and third months of age are a period of especially high risk. More attention should therefore be focused on protecting infants from injury and death resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
%G 
%I American Academy of Pediatrics
%@ 0031-4005
%U http://dx.doi.org/