Car crashes deadlier for younger teenagers

Children in their early teens are more likely to be killed in a car accident than younger children are, a new U.S. study finds.

Writing in the March issue of The Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, researchers said they saw a big change in fatality rates after age 12. The researchers, led by Dr. Flaura Koplin Winston of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, based their findings on a six-year review of more than 45,000 crashes in 50 American states.

The study pointed to several possible reasons fatality rates keep increasing for several years after age 12.

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