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Article: Children More Likely to Be Hurt in Certain Compact Pickup Trucks, Study Finds.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2002
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Byline: Susan FitzGerald
Mar. 6--Children riding in the back seats of compact extended-cab pickup trucks are almost five times more likely to be injured in event of a crash than children riding in rear seats of other vehicles, according to a study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
"Parents with a choice of vehicles available to transport their children should not use compact pickup trucks," concludes the study, which analyzed nearly 7,200 crashes that involved more than 11,000 children in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 13 other states.
The study, in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, cited several reasons ...