Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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To determine the association between mortality from violent or firearm related injury and previous handgun purchase. ⋯ Among adults who died in California in 1998, those dying from violence were more likely than those dying from non-injury causes to have purchased a handgun.
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There is an increased awareness of the problem of rollover crashes, but few data on children involved in rollover crashes in the United States. ⋯ Crashes involving children in SUVs were more likely to be rollover crashes than those involving passenger cars, and rollover crashes were associated with an increased risk of death and injury. However, the overall risk of death for children in a crash was not higher for children who crashed in an SUV compared to children who crashed in a passenger vehicle. Whether children are safer overall in SUVs compared with other cars cannot be answered with the data used.