Session Details
Child Passenger Safety: A Public Health Priority
SALONS A/B/C/D
Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury, hospitalization and fatality for children, and differences in protection needs at various child development levels complicate injury mitigation. Comprehensive correction efforts, largely driven by the transportation safety community, have significantly decreased fatalities and reduced nonfatal injuries in recent decades, but additional work is demonstrably needed. This session highlights relevant research, uses graphic and video demonstration, and provides context to illustrate how public health prioritization, continuing research, grassroots advocacy, updated policy and restraint development must jointly contribute to improving child occupant safety.
1. Enhance understanding of crash dynamics in relation to child occupants
2. Illustrate evidence-based child restraint selection and transition recommendations
3. Discuss common and potential injuries among unrestrained, inappropriately restrained and correctly restrained occupants
4. Improve understanding of how the E’s of injury prevention intersect with child passenger safety