Child fatal injury rate down, but race gap up | U.S. | Reuters: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Young children may be less likely to suffer fatal injuries than they were two decades ago but young blacks and American Indians are twice as likely as whites of dying in accidents, a U.S. study said on Monday.
A steady improvement in the rate of unintentional fatal injuries among children up to age 4 among all racial groups -- a roughly 80 percent drop since the 1980s -- was credited to more extensive use of safety measures such as car seats, smoke detectors and childproof caps on medicines and household products, the study said.
However, there was a 'troubling trend showing increases in recent poisoning deaths in Hispanic and black children,' lead study author Joyce Pressley wrote in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
