A case-control study of traffic accidents among child pedestrians.

This article was first presented to an international conference on 'the vulnerable road' user and describes Canadian child pedestrian deaths and injuries. It concludes: "... to be effective, prevention must include different kinds of measures directed toward environmental improvements and individual measures of assistance. Protected crosswalks need to be looked at. Is the time allowed for crossing enough? How conflictual is the fact that vehicle traffic flow is allowed to turn on a green arrow? ... The socio-economically underprivileged have a higher propensity for pedestrian accidents among children. Certain strategies to alleviate this tendency can be envisaged: these would include programmes of supervision that might be provided as auxiliary services in low-income areas." This article is referred to in the Safekids 2011 child pedestrian injury factsheet.