Analysis and description were made of the characters of child pedestrian road traffic injury in the three cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou from 2000 to 2004. Descriptive analysis was made of all traffic accidents relating to child pedestrian road traffic injury put on record by Traffic Management Bureau of Ministry of Public Security, Office of Public Security and Traffic Management of Bureau of Public Security of Beijing Municipality, Traffic and Criminal Police Headquarters of Shanghai Municipality and Traffic Police Detachment of Guangzhou Municipality. The number of child age 15 and under pedestrian road traffic injuries has tended to stability and a trend of slow decline from 2000 to 2004 has appeared. Over 80 per cent of child pedestrian road traffic injuries happened in sunny days and over 90 per cent of child pedestrian road traffic injuries happened on straight roads. The main injury part causing the death of child pedestrian is head injury. Protection of child pedestrian, and vulnerable groups, should be strengthened, interventions including crowd health education and publicity should be further developed (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E217780.
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