Programs: Child Passenger Safety

Car seats and booster seats, when used correctly, can save lives. Even though most parents think that they have properly installed their child’s car seat, over 90% of the car seats inspected at car seat check-up events have at least one misuse. Additionally, many children graduate to an adult seat belt too soon, and should still be in a booster seat.

Statistics and Impact

• Car crashes are the number one killer of children ages 4 to 14 in the United States.
• From 2004-2006 in Sonoma County, 1 child age 0 to 7 was killed and over 200 were injured from car crashes or incidents in or around cars.
  

Efforts

The Child Passenger Safety action team has two main goals:

• To educate parents and caregivers on how to keep their children safe in and around cars.
• To train certified car seat technicians to teach car seat safety to others and advocate for policy change.