National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) notes. Children injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes. Commentary.

摘要

In 2008, 454 vehicle occupants aged 7 years and younger were fatally injured in crashes on public roads in the United States. In every single one of these cases, someon-an emergency physician, a trauma surgeon, or a police officerhad to tell the parents their infant, toddler, or young child was dead. Telling families bad news is never an easy part of our jobs, but telling the parents that we could not save their daughter or son is truly onerous. Telling them while recognizing that the fatal injury could have easily been prevented (often by the parents themselves) makes the job even more painful.