Abstract
Traffic related injuries are among the most common causes of death in childhood and in youth. Young people belonging to a low social class and living in deprived socioeconomic areas are consistently at greater risk than others. The extent to which socioeconomic differences in risks from traffic injury vary during childhood and adolescence deserves consideration. The authors examined socioeconomic patterning in Swedish children and adolescents injured in road traffic incidents, considering four categories of road users. (Author/publisher)