Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats in Actual Use 831656
A comprehensive review of casualty-reducing effectiveness estimates of child safety seats in actual use, obtained by statistical analyses of highway accident data. Recent analyses of large samples of New York and Maryland accidents show statistically significant injury reductions for child safety seats; so does a new analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's accident files. Results from Washington State, Tennessee, New Jersey, and Idaho are also reviewed, as are Nationwide restraint usage and fatality trends. The findings are critically examined for possible data biases. It is concluded that child safety seats definitely reduce deaths and injuries in highway crashes, but that their effectiveness cannot be accurately estimated at this time because of inconsistencies and possible biases in the various studies.
Citation: Kahane, C., Kossar, J., and Chi, G., "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats in Actual Use," SAE Technical Paper 831656, 1983, https://doi.org/10.4271/831656. Download Citation
Author(s):
Charles Jesse Kahane, Jerome Kossar, George Y. H. Chi
Affiliated:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Pages: 11
Event:
27th Stapp Car Crash Conference with IRCOBI and Child Injury and Restraint Conference with IRCOBI (1983)
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE Child Injury and Restraint Conference Proceedings-P-135
Related Topics:
Child restraint systems
Fatal injuries
Crashes
Injuries
Technical review
Roads and highways
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