ABSTRACT
The previous chapter showed that a major problem with accident data (or more properly, injury data) is that it largely excludes all those accidents treated in Accident and Emergency departments, at home, or by general practitioners and dentists. Injury data thus underestimate the true incidence, leaving an ‘iceberg’ of unreported events that are not well understood. The incidence and patterning of ‘near-misses’ are not recorded either, nor do we have any idea of the strategies that parents or children routinely adopt to keep themselves and their families safe.
