Getting to school safely.

• Position: Trends And Transitions - Brief Article

No longer do most children walk 10 miles, uphill, in the snow, barefoot to school each day. They ride in cars, school buses and city buses, ride their bikes or walk. How safe is each? School-aged bicyclists have the highest injury and death rates, followed by pedestrians, then students who travel in cars with teenage drivers. Buses have the lowest injury and fatality rates.

780

School children killed by cars while riding in cars, walking, bicycling or riding on motorcycles to and from school each year.

450

Students killed (out of the above 780) while riding in cars driven by teenagers.

16,500

Children injured annually while walking or riding their bikes to...