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Abstract:
This document focuses on what has been and what still needs to be done to protect children from death or injury in transportation-related crashes. The following issues areas are examined: air bags and children, permanent child safety seat fitting stations, child occupant protection laws, car designs that focus on children, school transportation for children, passenger vans used for school activities, zero alcohol tolerance for drivers under age 21, graduated driver licensing for new and novice drivers, recreational boating safety, and child restraints in aviation.
The purpose of child safety seats is to reduce the number of child passengers killed or injured in motor vehicle crashes. The seats function by absorb...
Despite improvements in child passenger safety (CPS) over several decades, the number of motor vehicle traffic fatalities among children 13 and younge...
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