The child fatality review team assessed the death to be definitely preventable. Prevention factors cited were education for youth on inhalants and better CPR training for citizens. In 1999, unintentional injuries other than motor vehicle crashes accounted for 83 of the 897 child deaths reviewed. That makes this category of unintentional injuries the third largest category of deaths, accounting for 9.3 percent of the total. This is down slightly from 1998 when there were 86 deaths.
Unintentional injuries affect children of all ages.
The categories of child deaths in 1999 due to unintentional injuries are shown in Figure 5. The second leading category was drowning. There were 22 deaths, down from 40 in 1998. Unintentional injuries were highly preventable. Preventability could not be assessed in five cases.