That’s the surprising conclusion of research published today in the journal Pediatrics, which found that children involved
in car crashes with grandparent drivers had half the risk of being injured as kids riding with their parents.
“Isn’t this interesting? Maybe we’re not so bad after all,” said lead study researcher and two-time grandfather Dr. Fred M. Henretig, a pediatrician and emergency room physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Grandparents made up 9.