Frith W J
N Z Med J. 1981 Jun 24;93(686):431-3.
Records of reported child vehicle occupant fatalities and injuries were examined. Child vehicle occupants accounted for approximately 5 percent of all road injuries and deaths in 1979, with an approximate hospital cost of one million dollars per year. It is thus worth spending considerable sums of money on countermeasures. The problem of parents' perception of risk is illustrated by the observation that annually only one child in 1 000 is injured and one in 50 000 dies as an occupant of a vehicle. International comparisons show New Zealand child occupant accident rates per 100 000 population to be of the same order as those of a selection of other developed countries.
对已报告的儿童乘车者伤亡记录进行了审查。1979年，儿童乘车者约占所有道路伤亡人数的5%，每年的医院费用约为100万美元。因此，在应对措施上投入大量资金是值得的。父母对风险的认知问题体现在这样一个观察结果上：每年每1000名儿童乘车者中只有1人受伤，每50000人中只有1人死亡。国际比较显示，新西兰每10万人口中的儿童乘车者事故率与其他一些发达国家的事故率处于同一水平。
