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Child Passenger Safety: Prevention Strategies
- Child safety seats reduce the risk of
death in passenger cars by about 70% for infants and by about 55% for
toddlers ages 1 to 4 years (NHTSA 2003).
- The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration recommends booster seats for children over 40 pounds until
at least age 8 (NHTSA 2002).
- For children 4 to 7 years,
belt-positioning booster seats reduce injury risk by 59% compared to
safety belts alone (Durbin 2003).
- For children ages 8 years and older, car
seat belts reduce injury risk by about 50% (NHTSA 2003).
- All children ages 12 years and younger
should ride in the back seat. This eliminates the injury risk of deployed
front passenger-side airbags and places children in the safest part of the
vehicle in the event of a crash. Riding in the back seat is associated
with a 46% reduction in the risk of fatal injury in cars with a front
passenger-side airbag and at least a 30% reduction in the risk of fatal
injury in cars with no front passenger-side airbag (Braver 1998).
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