Although most of the scary things associated with Halloween are fantastical, there’s some real fright potential in the holiday.

Fortunately, most of those real dangers can be avoided with some good sense and good planning.

One of the biggest dangers in Halloween, which is Friday, is in just getting around.

Lots of excited children will be out and about walking in neighborhoods and that can have terrible consequences for them and for drivers who don’t take care.

The National Safety Council, for example, offers this scary statistic:

“Children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a car and killed on Halloween than on any other day of the year,” the council reported.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found “the relative risk of a pedestrian fatali

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