First-grade students were found to have been eight times more likely to be killed in traffic accidents while walking than sixth-graders in the years from 2013-2017, according to a National Police Agency report issued Thursday.
Of 84 elementary school children who were killed in traffic accidents while walking during the five-year period, 32 were first-graders and four were sixth-graders, the agency said.
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