{"id":149,"date":"2021-09-24T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2021-09-29T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:57:10","slug":"half-of-all-miami-child-pedestrian-deaths-are-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/half-of-all-miami-child-pedestrian-deaths-are-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of All Miami Child Pedestrian Deaths are Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parents of young children take extreme precautions to protect against pedestrian accidents by keeping them in the stroller, holding their hands, and watching like a hawk around Miami traffic. As the children get older and appreciate the risks of being hurt, you probably believe that these safety measures become less urgent. This is tragically not the case, and the statistics may come as a shock: According to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safekids.org\/infographic\/pedestrian-safety-and-teens\" class=\"broken_link\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safe Kids Worldwide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting children from accidents, the death rate for teens in pedestrian accidents is double that of younger kids.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly, these incidents are preventable and typically only occur because of motorist negligence. If your child was hurt, a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/pedestrian-accidents.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami pedestrian accidents lawyer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can explain your legal options. However, there are numerous safety tips that can reduce the threat, and they are most effective when both parents and teens are on board. Some additional statistics are informative on how these tragedies occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Data Reveals the Dangers of Teen Pedestrian Accidents<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/half-of-all-miami-child-pedestrian-deaths-are-teens\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Half of All Miami Child Pedestrian Deaths are Teens\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents of young children take extreme precautions to protect against pedestrian accidents by keeping them in the stroller, holding their hands, and watching like a hawk around Miami traffic. As the children get older and appreciate the risks of being hurt, you probably believe that these safety measures become less urgent. This is tragically not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,21],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pedestrian-accidents","category-personal-injury","tag-miami-pedestrian-accident-lawyers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Half of All Miami Child Pedestrian Deaths are Teens &#8212; Miami Personal Injury Lawyer Blog &#8212; September 24, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parents of young children take extreme precautions to protect against pedestrian accidents by keeping them in the stroller, holding their hands, and &#8212; September 24, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/half-of-all-miami-child-pedestrian-deaths-are-teens\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Half of All Miami Child Pedestrian Deaths are Teens &#8212; 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