The statistics of children and car accidents are alarming. According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA), nearly 250,000 (that's right - a quarter million) children are injured every year in car accidents!
This means that every day of the year approximately 700 children are harmed in accidents on our roadways. That number translates to about 10 children per state.
Worse yet, however, is the fact that of the 250,000 kids injured each year, nearly 2,000 die from their injuries. More grim data finds that children make up about 5% of total fatalities due to car accidents.
In fact, for children between the ages of 2 and 14, motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death.
Although painful to relate, the aforementioned information is not the only ghastly information about children and auto collisions.
Car accidents are the leading cause of acquired disability (e.g., brain injury, paralysis, etc.) for children nationwide.
And around 20% of the children who die in a car accident each year are killed in accidents involving a driver who is legally intoxicated.
Nearly half of these children were killed while riding as passengers in an automobile driven by an intoxicated driver.
This information is chilling yet we cannot simply turn our backs on the facts.
Greg Baumgartner is a Texas personal injury attorney who handles serious injury and wrongful death litigation for victims. If you would like to speak with a Texas truck accident lawyer in a no obligation consultation call us today.
