Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week -- February 9-15, 1997
February 9-15 is National Child Passenger Safety Awareness
Week.
As of January 29, 1997, a total of 35 children have died as a
result
of injuries associated with deployment of air bags in motor-vehicle
crashes. Hundreds more children aged less than 5 years die each
year
because they are not buckled into a child-safety seat or the
child-safety seat is misused; approximately 80,000 more are
seriously
injured (1).
Most of these fatalities and injuries are preventable but
require the combined effort of increased public education, improved
child passenger safety laws, and strong enforcement of these laws.
National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week is a time to enhance
activities focusing on child passenger safety. Additional
information
about materials to support such activities is available from the
Office of Communications and Outreach, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), 400 Seventh St., S.W., NTS-20,
Washington, DC 20590; fax (202) 493-2062; or the NHTSA World Wide
Web
site at http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov.
Reference
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic safety
facts, 1995: alcohol. Washington, DC: US Department of
Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Research, and
Development, 1996.
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