Did you ever ask yourselves which is the safest seat in the car? What about the chances of survival of back-seat passengers who are wearing the seat belts and the ones who omit this, in case of road traffic accidents and collisions?

An additional relevant and important issue for every parent and family, is about the effects of child safety seats and restraint systems.

Well, recently researchers from the University of Buffalo, the Center for Transportation Injury Research and the University of Michigan, using and analyzing data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, arrived to important conclusions and answers about car passengers safety, adult and children alike. 

You will find information from this interesting research in the article The safest seat in the car and child restraint systems that you will find attached with our 42nd monthly Progressive Newsletter.

The importance of using seat belts in the back seat was demonstrated as well as the fact that the rear middle seat is the safest. Legislation to require rear-seat belt use by all passengers should be strongly supported.

Child restraint systems were found to offer improved fit of restraints for children who are too small for the adult-sized seat belt, thereby affording a mechanical protection advantage over seat belts.

Therefore, efforts should continue to promote child restraint use through improved laws and educational programs emphasizing not only the benefits but as well the correct use of these systems in order to have the maximum of their safety performance. .

 
Takis A. Haggiandreou
Director
 

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