Two UNICEF child injury surveys in Beijing (2004) and Jiangxi (2007) found that for every child death due to injury, two to three children were permanently disabled, around 50 children were hospitalized for more than 10 days, and more than 250 children sought care or missed a day out of school. In 2013, according to the Ministry of Public Security, 3,994 children under 18 died on the roads because of accidents, and 17,955 were injured.
For children 1-4 years of age road traffic accidents are the leading mortality cause.
Injuries, including road traffic accidents, are now the third most important cause of death in children under five after newborn and infectious causes in China, according to China's Maternal and Child Mortality Surveillance System (2013). Worldwide, it is the number one killer of young people aged 15-29 the leading cause of death for boys aged 5-14 and a top five killer of girls aged 5 and over.Įvery year in China, over 10 million children are injured, and nearly 60,000 children die because of drowning, traffic accidents, accidental suffocation, falls, poisoning and other accidents. Road traffic injury is a leading killer of school-age children and adolescents globally and affects developing countries in particular, which account for 90% of the casualties on the world's roads. BEIJING, – As part of the global action to mark the third UN Global Road Safety Week (May 4-10), UNICEF calls attention to be paid to improving safety for children to reduce road accident related deaths.
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