Vehicle backover injuries and deaths occur when someone, without a driver's knowledge or awareness, is positioned behind a
vehicle as the driver is backing out of a driveway or other parking spot. Most victims of backovers are the elderly and children.
2 To add to the tragedy of backover injuries and deaths, the driver is often a neighbor or relative. When a child is the victim, the
driver may even be the child's mother or father.
Since most of these heartbreaking incidents occur in private driveways rather than on the road, they are not typically included
- in traffic-crash fatality data. Therefore, experts often don't agree on the exact number of children injured or killed in backover
incidents each year.
4 But even one child who dies from a backover incident is one too many. Awareness and understanding of the problem are the
first steps toward reducing the risk of backover deaths.
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What inference does the passage support regarding backover data?
A)
that the data presented so far is inconclusive
that backovers make up a number of traffic-crash fatalities
that more children are injured than are actually killed in these accidents
that backovers do not make up a significant number of traffic-crash
fatalities