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You can die by getting hit by a car with or without a helmut.
Children are not on that list for head injuries because they are not riding 
enough to be a statistic.  Car accidents etc are there because they do it 
more therefore the greater chance of something bad happening.  Also, they 
cannot choose who is behind the wheel.
Say, do you think Princess Diane would not have lived anyway if she wore a 
seatbelt?  That is what liberation did for her.

Like I tried to point out before but you got defensive about it and told me 
I should wear a helmut in a car in Surrey.  The argument is not held up by 
the facts.  Helmuts in cars for children I would consider.


"DiscoDuck" <fornewsgroups@shaw.ca> wrote in message 
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> from:
> http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060601/injury_kids0600601/20060601?hub=TopStories
>
> Notice bicycle head injuries are not among them:
>
> Like so many other countries, the leading death among Canadian children
> is preventable. But it's not a preventable disease, like most nations.
> Instead, Canadian children are perishing due to injuries.
>
> The tragedy of losing a child to a preventable injury strikes nearly
> 400 Canadian families each year.
>
> Another 25,500 children were hospitalized because of injuries each year
> during the mid-1990s to 2003, a report released Thursday revealed.
>
> According to Safe Kids Canada, the top three risks to children are
> drowning, vehicle accidents, and suffocation and choking -- on items
> ranging from food to the cords on blinds.
>
> Donna Fournier counts herself lucky that her daughter Courtney isn't
> one of the annual accident statistics.
>
> At only eight-months-old, Courtney and her baby walker fell down a
> flight of stairs.
>
> The memory of the incident still makes her cry.
>
> "It does, because I'm lucky, and she's lucky she's here," Fournier told
> CTV Ottawa as her eyes filled with tears.
>
> With summer activities just around the corner, Safe Kids Canada wants
> to remind parents to be vigilant while watching their children at play.
>
> In Ottawa, one school has created a wall with 390 pairs of tiny shoes
> for those Canadians children who died far too early.
>
> Health Minister Tony Clement spoke to the kids about how safety has
> changed over the years.
>
> "When I was growing up, bike helmets were pretty well unheard of, and
> fences around swimming pools -- why would you need that?" said Clement
> before adding: "I was very young a long time ago."
>
> Although injury deaths in children 14 years and younger fell 37 per
> cent nationwide in the last decade, the number of preventable deaths
> are still to high, Safe Kids Canada said.
>
> In particular, the organization would like to address the issue of
> preventable car injuries by harmonizing car seat laws federally.
>
> "There is a great deal of regional differences and you'll actually see
> in the report that some provinces are doing a way better job than
> others in terms of reduction of injury rates," Allyson Hewitt from Safe
> Kids Canada told CTV Ottawa.
>
> The largest drop in injury rates occurred in the three northern
> territories, where rates were reduced by 44 per cent.
>
> Manitoba and Ontario were also above the national average with a 42 per
> cent decline.
>
> The smallest reduction in injuries occurred in Quebec, with only a 15
> per cent decrease.
>
> Safe Kids Canada was founded in 1992 by a Hospital for Sick Kids
> surgeon, who realized that many of his medical cases were caused by
> incidents that were predictable and preventable.
>
> With a report by CTV Ottawa's Kimothy Walker
>