Halloween Health and Safety

Happy Halloween! Today is one of those holiday's where you can dress up to be any person or any thing you want.  That can be a lot of fun, but it can also be very dangerous and cause chaos to many communities.  Aside from the psycho people who use halloween for crime,  Halloween is known to be the "deadliest day" for children pedestrian fatalities.  "One hundred and fifteen child pedestrian fatalities occurred on Halloween over the 21 years of our analysis.  This is an average of 5.5 fatalities each year on October 31, which is more than double the average number of 2.6 fatalities for other days" (Halloween Deadliest Day Article).  Car crashes/accidents are what kill most pedestrians on this day.

Emergency-room visits are said to be the "scariest" part of Halloween for hospitals.  "We can't say for sure that Halloween is the most-dangerous holiday of all.  But it wasn't Valentine's Day that sent 4,400 people to hospitals last year.  That's the number of emergency-department visits attributed to Halloween activities between Oct. 1and Nov. 30 in 2013, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission" (The Columbus Dispatch-Emergency-room visits scariest part of Halloween).  The accidents range from carving pumpkins, to people getting hit with cars.  People are advised to wear bright clothing and carry flash lights.  The holiday is meant for fun and games, not to be stuck in an emergency room dressed up in your favorite costume. 

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/10/28/Halloween_scares.html

http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/halloween_deadliest_day.aspx