Authors point to such factors as lack of knowledge about the safety benefits of booster seats and risk to child passengers.
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Keep the youngest in the middle of the auto and have the right kind of vehicle seat for each passenger based on age and weight. “The problem usually has to do with using the wrong seat for a particular vehicle or truck”.
Free auto seats will be provided while supplies last by the Safe Riders Traffic Safety Program, sponsored by the Texas Department of State Health Services in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation. Rear facing seats spread the impact of the crash over the seat instead of over the body of the child. Additionally, the plastic can degrade over time. You’ll need the model number and date of manufacture found on the label of your auto seat.
MYTH: Older kids can sit in the front seat.
There are 26 permanent child seat inspection stations located throughout Montana for assistance throughout the year. Citizens may make an appointment with Brickman and have her inspect their child safety seat and help with initial installation for new parents.
It’s important for parents to match the child restraint seat with their vehicle, Bing and Belwadi said.
The requirements for child safety seats in New Jersey got a lot stricter on Tuesday, September 1.
MYTH: A one year old can ride in a forward-facing auto seat.
FACT: Children should be rear-facing until age 2. According to a study by the University of Virginia, children under age 2 are 75 percent less likely to die or to be severely injured in a crash if they are rear-facing. One isn’t safer than the other.
“Correctly used child safety seats can reduce the risk of death by as much as 71 percent”, said Cassandra Herring, Safe Kids Oklahoma.
8 to 12 years: Keep your child in a booster seat until he or she is big enough to fit in a seat belt properly. Adults must be a good example and always wear their seat belt.
This has been a deadly summer for Arizona child passengers. Buckle Up Montana Coalitions and child passenger safety certification training are funded through the Federal Highway Trust fund and administered by MDT. After outgrowing the forward-facing auto seats, children should be placed in booster seats until they’re the right size to use seat belts safely. Through partnerships with the leading children’s hospitals in the country, Buckle Up For Life has reached more than 23,000 people in 14 cities.
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Available at the event will be a auto seat safety area where trained inspectors will make sure the kids are safe.
