Injury reduction by mandatory child passenger safety laws.

Child safety in automobiles: mandatory restraint-use laws.

Child passenger safety behaviors in Latino communities.

Booster seats protect child occupants between 4 and 8 years of age. The objective of this study was to determine barriers and facilitators for booster seat use among Latino families. We conducted one-to-one elicitation interviews with 56 mothers and 35 fathers of booster-eligible Latino children in an urban county and a rural county in Washington State. Half of the parents did not consistently ...

The Partners for Child Passenger Safety Project: An Information Infrastructure for Injury Surveillance

Background. The Partners for Child Passenger Safety (PCPS) project is a five-year investigation into child occupant protection in automobile crashes. Funded by the State Farm Insurance Companies (SFIC), the research is conducted at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC). The goal of the PCPS project is to identify ways to reduce t...

The Development of an Injury Cost Function for Child Passenger Safety

The design of the optimal child restraint environment must consider both vehicle system (VS) and child restraint system (CRS) components. The objective of this study was to analyze the contributions from each system using a computer simulation of a rear facing (RF) child restraint involved in frontal crash. A parametric study of the material characteristics of components in each system was perf...

National Child Passenger Safety Week — September 14–20, 2014