Child pedestrian casualties as a public health problem. Paper prepared for the 3rd Congress of the International Federation of Pedestrians, Scheveningen, 13 September 1973.

The importance to public health authorities of the mortality and morbidity from child pedestrian accidents is reviewed and attention is drawn to the inadequate state of the available information on morbidity from such accidents. The need to improve the existing statistics is emphasised and the contribution which can be made by epidemiological studies is discussed in the light of the available evidence concerning the human and environmental factors influencing the risk of mortality and morbidity from such accidents.