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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2005 file photo, South Windsor Police Department Community Service Officer Robin Massanti helps Debra Mlinek from West Suffield secure her daughter, Eliza, five months, in her car seat during a Child Passenger Safety Clinic in Hartford, Conn. In a report covering 2002 through 2011, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say the increased use of car seats and booster seats drove a decline in children who died in crashes. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)

Child deaths in traffic accidents fell 43 per cent in 10 years; experts credit safety seats

ATLANTA – 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 per cent. 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.

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CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns

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