For those interested: I live in Austria, the year of my story was about 1992.

These are the statistics about traffic-accidents back then. Unfortunately there's no distinction whether the children were in the car or walking/cycling.

* Austria had 7.8 million inhabitants back then, 24% were 0-19 years old.

* There were 4.682 accidents involving children 0-14 years old

* 4.843 times a child was hurt

* 56 children were killed

Source: http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/energie_umwelt_in...