Robbery/theft/assault etc. seems like the ones you'd actually care about. Murders and kidnappings of children by strangers are so rare that any data about them is essentially meaningless.

Or maybe they try something stupid (we all did stupid things as kids and I don't expect my kids to be smarter than I was) and wind up drowning in the river or falling off something.

But why?

Is it common for them to be hit by cars?

Is it safer for them to go to school with parents?

And if someone hits you while you are trying to protect your kid, is it less traumatic?

And if while you take them to school you hit someone else's kid, is it less traumatic?

Is it common for kids to drown or fall and die while parents are not there?

From what I see it is common for adults to drown while they're trying to save someone else (usually not kids, but other adults)

If you start thinking about everything that _could_ happen, you wouldn't let your kids go out

Kids spend a lot of time alone and still they manage to survive

Why going to school should be any different?

2) Compare say multiple person being in a vehicular accidents when one is a child. Also make sure to include a reduction in car crashes including a child as some of those would become pedestrians. (Data is also available, but no idea how many kids would walk.) School busses exist and work.

3, 4) Stats are not readily available.

5) Stats are available, most of those happen near the parents anyway. Essentially negligence with very small kids or stupidity like having kids near unguarded aquifers or drops. Such areas are rare in cities.

Fear of your kid being hit by a car is just perception

driving them to school with the false sense of security that when they are with their parents kids are safer is more dangerous

However, driving the kids to school is probably no better than them just going on their own looking at stats of car crashes with kids involved.

Anyway, as expected, parents tend to behave highly irrationally when safety of their own children is involved.

According to CDC it's the second most common cause of accidental injury death among children aged 5-14 (after being in a car crash)

The post I was replying to specifically said he's scared that his kid could be hit by a car when going to school on his own

It's fairly obvious that accidents are the most common cause of death for kids My point is that parent supervision don't protect them from being hit or end up in a car crash or fall down from a bridge

p.s.: main cause doesn't mean it is common I believe it's not very common, it's catastrophic for their young body when it happens, but not common

In actual cities the rates should be lower as roads are not mixed with recreational or pedestrian areas as much, at least in Europe. It is still the leading cause though. (WHO has good data.)

Quite a few accidents are also caused by biking...

This is precisely where are now.

http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Child_Abduction_is_Not_Funny

>Or maybe they try something stupid

that's the fastest way to become smart in my experience. humans are remarkably adept at not dying and even ballsy kids can judge their competence well enough if they're given the opportunity to learn their limits.