I’ve thought about this a lot when it comes to car seats. The paper implies 57 deaths prevented, but I see these stats often turned to a percentage reduction(53% reduction in deaths for example). Then when debated the change in the death as a percentage seems large, and folks automatically vote for these laws. We continue to chase small improvements because we aren’t looking at the actual numbers.
Also note this paper does not seem to take in lifelong injury rates. We believe this has prevented 57 deaths, but we don't ask the question of how many injuries has this prevented. It may be easy for some people to point out the death number is very small, but living, not the non-existent should be the primary concern here.
There are over 4 million vehicle related injuries per year. How many of those are in the 0-13 year old range, and how many of them are life long?
