| Outstanding Results Reported by Partners for Child Passenger Safety | |
| In line with the many gems compiled and shared from the largest detailed study of children in crashes to date, comes excellent support for the concept of booster use. Data from the study of Partners for Child Passenger Safety show that there is a 59% reduction in injury for children ages 4 to 7 when boosters are in use, not just safety belts. Moreover, those using boosters had no injuries to the abdomen, neck/spine/back, or lower extremity. Children using belts alone had injuries in every region. [Seven year old was the top age noted, because so few children over that age are in boosters.] The full paper by Drs. Dennis Durbin, Michael Elliott, and Flaura Winston is in the June 4th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In response to this research, California Senator Jackie Speier announced plans to increase coverage of the CA law specifically the use of child restraints to age 7. Since all occupants in CA vehicles must ride buckled up correctly, there is already legal backing for citations for the children over the current specified age who do not meet the 5-Step Test for using safety belts alone. Article courtesy of Safety Belt Safe News | |
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