Understanding traffic death rates: can we keep our children safe?

For close to two decades, children and teens in Montana and South Dakota have consistently shown higher rates of death than most of the other states in the country, meaning that more of them die before they reach adulthood. To investigate the causes of and possible remedies for this problem, KIDS CO...

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Published inSouth Dakota Business Review Vol. 67; no. 3; p. 1
Main Authors Cochran, Carole, Dillon, Thale, Herling, Daphne
Format Newsletter Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vermillion The Business Research Bureau 01.03.2009
University of South Dakota, School of Business
Subjects
Addictive behaviors
Age groups
Alcohol
Case studies
Children & youth
Deaths
Demographics
Drunk driving
Families & family life
Fatalities
Food stamps
Licenses
Poverty
Roads & highways
Rural areas
Secondary school students
Statistical analysis
Studies
Tobacco
Traffic accidents & safety
Trends
Variables
Vehicles
South Dakota
United States > US
Montana
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Summary:For close to two decades, children and teens in Montana and South Dakota have consistently shown higher rates of death than most of the other states in the country, meaning that more of them die before they reach adulthood. To investigate the causes of and possible remedies for this problem, KIDS COUNT projects in Montana and South Dakota received funding from the Annie E Casey Foundation and designed a two-part exploratory analysis. Several factors at the state level were empirically identified, from a list of possible factors, as significant predictors of a state's child rate of death resulting from motor vehicle crashes. Six states were chosen for in-depth analysis based on their history of improving teen or child death rates over the period from 1990 through 2004. The case studies were intended to inform Montana and South Dakota on ways to potentially reduce traffic death rates.
ISSN:0038-3260