Who is driving when unrestrained children and teenagers are hurt?

Miller, Ted R.; Spicer, Rebecca Shannon; Lestina, Diane C.

doi:10.1016/s0001-4575(98)00037-2

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“…Studies conducted in the 1990s focused on parental factors associated with unrestrained children: driver's gender (Eby & Kostyniuk, 1999;Miller et al, 1998), age (Miller et al, 1998;Verreault et al, 1982;Kostaridou et al, 1997;Wagenaar et al, 1988), rural/urban residence (Miller et al, 1998;Agran et al, 1998;Niemcryk et al, 1997), race and ethnicity (Wagenaar et al, 1988;Niemcryk et al, 1997;Margolis et al, 1992;Zempsky et al, 1996;Istre et al, 2002;Lee et al, 2003;Stiles & Grieshop, 1999), socioeconomic status (Kostaridou et al, 1997;Wagenaar et al, 1988;Margolis et al, 1992;Russell et al, 1994;Webb et al 1988;Hletko et al, 1983), and child's age. Current safety efforts promote optimal restraint, but little is known 373 Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville] at 18:15 04 January 2015 Table I Best practice child restraint use guidelines based on the American academy of pediatrics and the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.…”

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Parent Driver Characteristics Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint of Child Passengers

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Smith

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Traffic Injury Prevention

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Parent Driver Characteristics Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint of Child Passengers

Winston

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Smith

et al. 2006

Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…10 Non-family member driving [17][18][19] and parent not using a seat belt are additional factors that are associated with a child's not using a CSS. 4,[20][21][22] Studies on barriers to use of booster seats reveal similar child, vehicle, and trip factors. [23][24][25] Crnic and Greenberg 26 developed a hassles scale to determine the impact of external minor daily stresses such as irritating, frustrating, annoying, and distressing occurrences on parent-child relationships.…”

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Development of a Child Safety Seat Hassles Scale in a Largely Low-Income Latino Population

2006

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In this low-income largely Latino population of violators, self-report of "always using a child safety seat" when transporting their child was low (59%). Child safety seat nonuse was related to hassles that are associated with child behaviors and vehicle crowding/inconvenience. The child safety seat Hassles Scale documented barriers and difficulties with the use of a child safety seat in a high-risk population for nonuse. These concepts can be explored by clinicians and others who work to increase consistent child safety seat use. Additional evaluation and development of the instrument requires validation for its use as a screening or educational tool.

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“…Hence, child-occupant restraint use under all conditions of travel and all seating positions must be stressed by child-occupant protection counseling. Miller et al [8] identified significant risk factors with the presence of a second adult in children-involved crashes involving a male driver, night driving, driving under the influence of alcohol, other moving or non-moving violations and the driver being unrestrained. Results showed that, as drivers got older, they were more likely to secure a baby in a child seat than ensure that the older children buckle up.…”

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Restraint Usage Characteristics and Other Factors Associated with Safety of Children Involved in Motor Vehicle Crashes

Dissanayake¹,

Amarasingha²

2016

JCEA

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Involvement in road traffic crashes as vehicle occupants is a leading cause of death and serious injury among children. The objective of this study was to investigate crash severity factors and child safety restraint use characteristics in order to identify effective countermeasures to increase children's highway safety. Characteristics and percentages of restraint use among child passengers aged 4~13 years were examined using highway crash data from Kansas. The association between restraint use, injury severity and characteristics of children involved in crashes were investigated using OR (odds ratios) and a logistic regression model, which was used to identify risk factors. Results showed that children, who were unrestrained, were seated in the front seat, traveling with drunk drivers and on rural roads, and traveling during nighttime was more vulnerable to severe injury in the case of motor vehicle crashes. The most frequent contributing causes related to crashes involving children included driver's inattention while driving, failure to yield right-of-way, driving too fast, wet roads and animals in the road. Based on identified critical factors, general countermeasure ideas to improve children's traffic safety were suggested, including age-appropriate and size-appropriate seat belt restraints and having children seated in the rear seat. Parents and children must gain better education regarding these safety measures in order to increase child safety on the road.

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Who is driving when unrestrained children and teenagers are hurt?

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

Parent Driver Characteristics Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint of Child Passengers

Parent Driver Characteristics Associated with Sub-Optimal Restraint of Child Passengers

Development of a Child Safety Seat Hassles Scale in a Largely Low-Income Latino Population

Restraint Usage Characteristics and Other Factors Associated with Safety of Children Involved in Motor Vehicle Crashes

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