Children are more likely than adults to be injured in a car crash if not put in the proper restraints, because they have softer bones, weaker neck muscles, and their bodies are more fragile. Children have larger heads in proportion to their bodies. This is due to children 13 years of age and under should ride in the back seat of a vehicle. A child safety seat is designed to: hold the child in the seat in the vehicle, protect the child from being thrown out of the vehicle or from hitting something in the vehicle, absorb the force of the impact, and prevent crushing of the child by other passengers.
The CDC reports that one out of every three children who died in a car crash in 2011 was not using a seat belt or safety child seat. This suggests many more deaths could be prevented. The results were based on a study in the Morbidity and Mortality Report, the agency’s weekly report on death and disease. According to the report, more than 9000 children age 12 and younger died in car crashes from 2002 to 2011. Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for children. In 2011 three hundred and thirty eight children were injured each day while riding in cars, SUVS, vans or pickup trucks. Of the children killed, the percentage of unrestrained fatalities with no car seat or seat belt varied by vehicle type with greater percentages of unrestrained fatalities occurring in larger vehicles: SUVS (55percent) pickups (43 percent) vans (40 percent) and cars (24 percent).
One of the most important jobs as a parent is keeping children safe when riding in a vehicle. Each year thousands of children are killed or injured in car crashes. Proper use of car seats helps keep children safe. With so many different car seats ...
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...her a forward facing restraint or a booster seat. Allows children seven years and older to use either a booster seat or a seat belt by itself.
Using the proper child restraints will reduce the fatality of child injuries in motor vehicle accidents.
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In North Carolina, the “Click It or Ticket” program was put into place in 1993 by former Governor Jim Hunt to increase safety belt and child safety use rates through stepped up enforcement of the state’s safety belt law. According to North Carolina’s safety belt law all drivers and front seat passengers over the age of 16 are required to wear safety belts. Children less than age 16 are covered under the North Carolina Child Restraint Law. This law requires that children must be buckled up no matter where they are seated in the vehicle. Violators of the safety belt law are issued tickets and are subject to a fine of $25 plus $50 court costs. These violations have been defined as “infractions” and are not entered on driving records. In addition to this, effective January 1, 2005, any child less than 8 years old or 80 pounds in weight must ride in a booster seat. Violations of this law will result in a $25 fine plus court costs as well as having 2 points placed against driver’s license. However, drivers cited for this violation of this law for a 5,6, or 7 year old will be able to have the charges dismissed if they present proof to the court that they have acquired an appropriate restraint for that child. Statistics have been gathered on safety belt use since this program began and has shown that seat belt use has increased from 65 percent to 84 percent. It has also shown that fatal and serious injuries in North Carolina have been cut by 14 percent. Resulting in a savings of at least $135 million in health care related costs. Other positive ef...
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In 1966, the National Highway Safety Bureau (NHSB) was designed by the Highway Act. NHSB’s director, Dr. William Haddon, noticed that he could prevent motor-vehicle injuries by applying public health methods and epidemiology. Various passages demanded the government to set standards for the highway and motor vehicles. The federal government responded by developing new safety features in cars such as safety belts, head rests, and shatter-resistant windshields. Barriers, reflectors, and center line strips were placed on roadways to provide direction and illumination. Traffic safety laws, wearing a safety belt, and public education encouraged drivers to make safer decisions. The use of safety belts has skyrocketed from 11% in 1981 to 68% in 1997 and decreases When the community and government understood the necessity for motor-vehicle safety, various programs such as Prior to the implementation, the rate stood at 18 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 1925; however, the rate stood at 1.7 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 1997. With all of the new safety features with cars, public education and enforcement of safety laws, “motor-vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the United States.” Over 23.9 million vehicle crashes were reported in 1997; estimated costs were around $200 billion.
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According to national teen driving statistics, 16-year-olds, in particular, are 3 (three) times more likely to die in a crash than the average of all drivers, and they have higher crash rates than any other age group. In 2008; 81% of teenage crash deaths were passenger vehicle occupants, 31% of teenage drivers killed had been drinking alcohol, 55% were not buckled up, and 37% of male teenage drivers involved in fatalities were speeding. Teenagers who drink and drive have a greater risk of serious crashes than older drivers with equal blood alcohol concentrations. Teens do not wear seat/safety belts as much as adults. Teens tend to take more risks due to overconfidence in their abilities. These risks include: speeding, tailgating (driving too close to the vehicle in front), running red lights, violating traffic signals and signs, illegal turns, dangerous passing, and failure to yield to pedestrians.
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In the United States, statistics show that car accidents are a leading cause of death in children between 0 and 14 years of age. A significant amount of the fatalities are due to improper restraint of the children while riding in the car. For the younger children, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that toddlers remain rear facing in their car seats until age 2, or until they reach the maximum height and weight for their specified car seat. According to Illinois law, a parent could face their child’s car seat forward at 12 months, as long as the child meets the height and weight requirements for the car seat. The rear facing car seat recommendation should be extended to at least 4 years old in order to protect toddler passengers during car accidents.
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for people under the age of 35. Wearing a seat belt can prevent death in about half of these accidents. Did you know that every 15 seconds someone is injured in an automobile accident if they are not buckled up, or that every 13 minutes someone is killed in a crash. Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety related behavior. According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration seatbelts saved nearly 12,000 lives in the United States in the year 2000. The NHTSA estimates that more than 9,000 U.S. car accident fatalities in 2000 would have been avoided if the victims had been wearing seatbelts. Sixty three percent of the people killed in accidents were not wearing seat belts. The NHTSA a...
Although motor vehicle crashes are responsible for most severe maternal injuries and fetal losses form trauma, pregnant women have low rates of seat belt use. Proper seat belt use is the most significant modifiable factor in decreasing maternal and fetal injury and mortality after motor vehicle crashes. Seat belt-restrained women who are in motor vehicle crashes have the same fetal mortality rate as women who are not in motor vehicle crashes, but unrestrained women who are in crashes are 2.8 times more likely to lose their fetuses.
Using seat belt when driving can help us to prevent death when an accident occurs.
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