A new report shows fewer children are dying in traffic accidents, and officials say that’s because more young kids are buckled up.
Over a decade, the number of children 12 and under who died in crashes dropped by 43 percent. Health officials say increased use of car seats and booster seats drove the decline.
Still, a third of the 650 children who died in 2011 were not buckled up. That was the case in almost half of the black and Hispanic deaths compared to a quarter of white deaths.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the report on Tuesday.