| Title | The 2016 Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey: Child Passenger Safety [Traffic Tech] |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 74646 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Sheppard, Kelly |
| Corporate Creator | United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| Publisher | United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| Publication Date | 20200600 |
| Language | English |
| 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. |
| Rosap ID | dot:49556 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/49556 |
| TRT Terms | Children; Child restraint systems; Vehicle occupants; Fatalities; Traffic safety; Motor vehicles; Surveys; Crash severity |
| General Subjects | child fatalities; child passenger safety |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| TRIS Online Accession No |
1743548 |
| Report Number | DOT HS 812 920 |
| Resource type | Brief |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/74000/74600/74646/DOT-HS-812-920_20200608.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |