Seat belts are effective for children
Despite standard seat belts being designed for adults, they protect
school age children at least as well as adults. The odds of children
sustaining fatal or moderately severe injury in the front passenger
seat are more than nine times higher for unbelted children than for
belted ones, and for those in the rear left seat are more than twice as
high. Previous research has provided mixed results on the effectiveness
of seat belts for school age children, say Halman and colleagues
(p 1123), and in some jurisdictions children are still allowed to
travel unbelted in the back seats of road vehicles.
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- Are seat belt restraints as effective in school age children as in adults? A prospective crash study
- Stephen I Halman, Mary Chipman, Patricia C Parkin, and James G Wright
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