Motor vehicle injuries involving children are a significant public health problem. Globally, such injuries have been reported to affect many young people, resulting in a large number of years lost to premature death or a large number of years lived with disability. Children aged 4-8 years are especially important since they die more as occupants in motor vehicle crashes than from any other form of unintentional injury. As children of this age group outgrow safety seats designed for them, they travel mostly unrestrained in motor vehicles or are placed prematurely in adult seat belts instead of booster seats recommended by public health and transport safety agencies This increases their risk for serious crash-related injuries, disabilities, psychological trauma, and mortality
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