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Children and Car Accident Study Conducted By Philadelphia Children's Hospital
The primary goal this year is to remind all parents and other adults responsible for children traveling in motor vehicles that if children are less than 4’9” tall, they must be in a booster seat. “Only an estimated 10 to 20 percent of children ages 4 to 8 are placed in booster seats by the adults who care for them,” said DPH Commissioner J. Robert Galvin, MD, MPH.
“A study by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia shows that children in this age group who use booster seats are 59 percent less likely to be injured in a car crash than children restrained by a seat belt alone.” Every year children suffer preventable injuries and deaths in motor vehicle crashes because they are not riding in an appropriate child safety seat or booster seat. Booster seats help to correctly position lap-shoulder safety belts for children who have outgrown their child safety seats.
For maximum child passenger safety, parents and caregivers simply need to remember and follow the 4 Steps for Kids: Use rear-facing infant seats in the back seat from birth to at least one year of age and at least 20 pounds. Use forward-facing toddler seats in the back seat from age one and 20 pounds to about age four and 40 pounds. Use booster seats in the back seat from about age four to at least age eight—unless the child is 4’ 9” or taller and use safety belts in the back seat at age eight or older or taller than 4’ 9”. It is also important to remember that all children under age 13 should ride in the back seat.
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