Motor Vehicle Safety:
Car Seats, Child Passengers, and Teenage Drivers
References:
[1] NHTSA. Teen Crash Statistics. Available at: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/newdriver/SaveTeens/append_c.html. Accessed 28 November 2009.
[2] Children's Hospital Boston. Motor Vehicle Safety. Available from: http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site1314/mainpageS1314P0.html. Accessed 28 November 2009
[3] Taft CH, Mickalide AD, Taft AR. Child Passengers at Risk in America: A National Study of Car Seat Misuse. Washington, D.C.: National SAFE KIDS Campaign. 1999 February.
[3a] American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention. Policy statement child passenger safety. Pediatrics. Published online Mar 21, 2011; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-0213.
[4] CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System. Available at: http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html. Accessed 28 November 2009.
Written and compiled by Kyla Boyse, R.N. Reviewed by faculty and staff the University of Michigan.
Updated March 2011
