A sudden event that is not planned or intended and results or can result in injury is called an accident. Accidents are one of the leading causes of death, both in adults and in children. On the list of countries, sorted by the number of accidents, Croatia ranked no. 25 and no. 26 respectively for men and women out of 31 countries involved in the research. That makes Croatia one of the most unsafe countries in Europe. In this retrospective research, I have analysed all cases of accidents with deadly outcome in children where autopsy has been performed at the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics in Zagreb. Research included all cases from 2000 to 2016 and children aged 0 to 18. A total of 245 cases were analysed and the distribution of cases by both age and gender, and the number of each cases in the specific years was shown. The specific causes of accidents were also analysed. That data was compared to the European statistics and the most probable cause of such distribution was discussed. This research confirmed that the specific causes of accidents from area covered by the Department were consistent with the statistics published by WHO for the rest of the Europe regarding the specific causes of death. The research also showed that the total number of accidents declined over the years, also following the statistics for the rest of Europe.