As I was getting my son from school today, I noticed that several kids were riding their scooters without helmets. Now in Oregon, if they are under the age of 14, that is against the law. This reminded me of a Parents Magazine article that I recently saw online.

Parents Magazine just rated the top 10 safest states for kids. Oregon just cracked the top ten, at number 10.

They conducted a study for 3 months and looked at injury and death among children. The authors of the study looked at what states are doing in order to try and protect children from accident and injury such as requiring bike helmets, booster seats, and gun safes. 30 different criteria were evaluated in order to come up with their list.

Oregon does not require guns to be in safes, which I am sure hurt our ranking, but I thought it was interesting and worth looking at for those families looking to relocate here to Oregon.

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