Here are a few more of the deadly facts outlined in CDFs new report on the toll gun violence is taking on America's children: More 10- to 19-year-olds die from gunshot wounds than from any other cause except motor vehicle accidents. Almost 90 percent of the children and teens killed by firearms in 2003 were boys. Boys ages 15 to 19 are nearly nine times as likely as girls of the same age to be killed by a firearm. There were more than nine times as many suicides by guns among White children and teens as among Black children and teens. But despite white youths' higher rate of gun suicides, gun violence still disproportionately affects Black children. The firearm death rate for Black males ages 15 to 19 is more than four times that of White males the same age. More Black children and teen...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As the July 4th holiday approaches, CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) is reminding people to use common sense and extreme caution around railroad tracks and crossings. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, injuries and fatalities associated with trespassing on railroad property are significant, with nearly 1,800 fatalities in the past ten years. The rail safety education group Operation Lifesaver reports that a motorist is almost 20 times more likely to die in a crash involving a train than in a collision involving another motor vehicle. The chance of serious accidents increases during the summer, as children are out of school and people partake in recreational pursuits that lead them near railroad tracks.
Raising safe and healthy children is one of the most important jobs we have as parents. However, a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests we can do a much better job. We bring our children to emergency rooms about 9.2 million times annually for treatment of accidents. Approximately 12,000 children die yearly from preventable injuries, more deaths than all illnesses combined. For children between 5 and 19 years of age, motor vehicle accidents were the leading cause of injury-related fatalities. Dr. Grant Baldwin, one of the authors of the CDC report, concluded that most of what we call "accidents" are actually "predictable, preventable and controllable.
The leading cause of death for children under the age of 14 is unintentional injury. The majority of these deaths occur when then child becomes a projectile -- when the child becomes airborne. The most common instances of a child becoming airborne are motor vehicle accidents, bicycling accidents and falls. Every year more than 14 million children in the United States -- one in four children under 14 years of age -- are injured to the point they require medical attention. Fortunately, it is estimated at least 90 percent of these injuries are preventable.
Sunshine, cookouts, lightning bugs and vacations: Summer brings relaxation and excitement for young and old. But along with these cheerful times come the not-so-bright experiences of unsupervised children: sprains, broken bones and emergency department visits. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 2.4 million American children under the age of 14 visited an emergency room during summer 2004. Emergency rooms see the most serious injuries from motor vehicle accidents, bike crashes, pedestrian injuries, drowning and falls. More than 2,500 children die from these incidents each year.
EPA and NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, are issuing this joint proposal to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for model years 2017-2025. This proposal extends the National Program beyond the greenhouse gas and corporate average fuel economy standards set for model years 2012-2016. On May 21, 2010, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum requesting that NHTSA and EPA develop through notice and comment rulemaking a coordinated National Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of light-duty vehicles for model years 2017- 2025. This proposal, consistent with the President's request, responds to the country's critical need to address global climate change and to reduce oil consumption. NHTSA is proposing C...
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With schools across the state opening this month, the West Virginia Board of Education and the West Virginia Department of Education want to remind motorists to exercise extra caution. Each year in West Virginia, about 224,000 students climb aboard 3,700 buses that travel more than 48 million miles to and from school. We ask motorists to be extremely cautious and to obey the bus signals, while the students are being loaded and unloaded from the bus, said state Superintendent Jorea Marple. School buses, by all measures, are the safest motor vehicle on the highway. But in this electronic age, distracted driving is leading to more and more accidents. It is our responsibility as parents, students, bus operators, motorists and school administrators to provide a safe ride for our children. Th...
Look around a classroom of 20 students, and chances are at least two are children of substance-abusing parents. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 11.9 percent, or more than 8 million children, live with at least one parent who is dependent on or abusing alcohol or other drugs. Children of substance-abusing parents are more likely to experience abuse, neglect and injuries or death related to motor vehicle accidents. With this exposure, they also are at greater risk for having their own alcohol/drug issues, delinquency, depression and poor academic performance.
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Kids in New York City are safer than in the nation overall, according to the first report of the New York City Child Fatality Review Team, released by the Health Department today. The city's child injury death rate is half the national rate, thanks mainly to lower rates of car passenger deaths and homicides. While children in New York City are seven times less likely to die as car passengers, motor vehicles remain the leading cause of accidental child deaths in New York City. The full Child Fatality Report is available at http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/episrv/episrv-childfatalitybook.pdf. In New York City, 286 children between the ages of one and 12 died from injury during the five-year period from 2001 through 2005. Injury deaths mainly include accidents, homicides and suici...
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