About Safe Kids Worldwide

Safe Kids Worldwide has worked steadily to decrease death and injury in the areas of traffic safety (passenger, pedestrian and bicyclist), drowning, fire and burns, falls, poisoning and unintentional firearm injury. Unintentional injury kills one million children per year worldwide. In the United States and most other industrialized nations, unintentional injury is the number one casuse of death in children ages 1 to 14, comprising 36.4 percent of child mortality in the United States. Safe Kids Worldwide and its coalitions around the country made up of firefighters, nurses, law enforcement officials and others carry out the mission "to save a child s life every day." Safe Kids Worldwide has provided life-saving assistance and more than 2 million bicycle helmets, 250,000 smoke alarms to families in need and inspected more than 800,000 car seats.