This Halloween, be safe when trick-or-treating by watching for cars

The scariest things lurking around the corner on Halloween aren’t monsters or ghosts.

According to doctors, it’s cars. Halloween is one of the deadliest days of the year for pedestrians, especially for kids.

“There’s a lot of focus on the risks of candy that might be a little misplaced,” said Britney Lombard, an injury prevention manager at Children’s Hospital Colorado. But one thing experts are sure of, she said, is an increase in child pedestrian fatalities on Halloween.

“There are a lot of things that they can do to mitigate those risks,” she said.