The 2016 Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey: Child Passenger Safety [Traffic Tech]

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• Creators:
  Sheppard, Kelly
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Children
  • Child restraint systems
  • Child safety seats
  • Vehicle occupants
  • Fatalities
  • Traffic safety
  • Motor vehicles
  • Surveys
  • Crash severity
  • child fatalities
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT HS 812 920
• Series:
  NHTSA BSR Traffic Tech
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1525979
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Traffic Safety Facts Traffic Tech
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  Despite improvements in child passenger safety (CPS) over several decades, the number of motor vehicle traffic fatalities among children 13 and younger has not changed substantially from 2010 to 2017. Proper use of child restraint systems (CRSs, including car seats and booster seats) prevents deaths and reduces crash injury severity among children. According the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s 2015 National Survey of Use of Booster Seats (Li, Pickerell, and KC, 2016), the percentage of children unrestrained in passenger vehicles increases with age from 2.6 percent for children less than 1 year to 15.6 percent for children 8 to 12 years old. Furthermore, NHTSA’s National Child Restraint Use Special Study (Greenwell, 2015) documented 59 percent of car seats used by children 8 and younger were incorrectly secured, which may have decreased their efficacy. To move the needle on child fatalities and improve overall traffic safety, it is important to understand who drives motor vehicles with child passengers, beliefs about passenger safety law enforcement, and issues faced when using CRSs.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/49556/dot_49556_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 270.57 KB]
• Collection(s):
  NHTSA - Behavioral Safety Research
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bd271ce676ad8d57a3783fbee9df7411e59fb3074dfbfcb729cd9c067c4c1f71