This paper reviews how the problem of child pedestrian accidents in Great Britain has been approached at a macro level. It discusses the development of a model to predict child pedestrian casualties within Great Britain and the uses of this sort of macro analysis. It then presents a micro level analysis of accident and injury patterns amongst child pedestrian casualties and review recent research on measures of children's patterns of exposure. The value of this research in identifying the comparative risks of different groups of child pedestrians (such as different age, gender and socio-economic groups) is discussed. (A)
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