Minnesota Safety Council and AAA Promote Child Passenger Safety Week

Week is celebrated February 11 to 17 passengers and the safety of children in relation to this, the American Automobile Association (AAA) and the Minnesota Safety Council have joined forces to promote the importance of ensuring secure passengers Children on the seat.

Their efforts to educate parents on how to properly secure their most precious cargo is due to the fact that a large number of passengers Children are not adequately protected. This fact is one of the main reasons that car accidents are still the leading cause of death for children aged four to fourteen. In contrast, however, in the last twenty years, 7,500 lives were saved by properly installed car seats.

In 2005 alone, an average of five children under 14 were killed in road accidents every day. In addition to that, 640 children were injured every day for the same year. The figure is so alarming that the AAA Minnesota / Iowa will have to work hard to educate parents and caregivers as well as the importance of properly restrain a child for the child's safety is.

Gail Weinholzer, the director of public affairs for AAA Minnesota / Iowa, said that they not only work hard during the week of child passenger safety, but throughout the year as well. The car lobby has also collaborated with the Minnesota Safety Council to promote the new website developed in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

The main concern of the coalition is to increase the awareness of parents with children aged four to seven. This is due to the fact that all the children in the U.S. only 10-20 percent are not properly secured to the seat or seats may not be using it at all. The AAA and the Minnesota Safety Council would like to point out to parents that children aged 4-8 who are adequately protected in their seats are more likely to avoid serious injury or fatal accident.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia quoted a figure of 59 per cent survival of children properly restrained in their seats of those who are protected by the safety belt.

To help parents protect their children in case of accident, the AAA came up with simple suggestions for them to follow. The tips are easy to follow, just as it is easy to read a repair manual Volvo. One of which is to put on children safety seats rear facing in the rear seat as long as the seat can accept the child. We recommend using rear child safety seats until the child weighs at least a year or a minimum of 20 pounds. When too much for them rear facing seats, children should be secured to a forward facing child seat, the security, but should still go in the back seat. Children should use this forum until they are about four years old and weighs at least 40 pounds.

When the child has outgrown their forward facing seats for children, parents are invited to provide seats for them. They still run even if the back seat until they are old enough to be properly restrained in the vehicle seat belt. Usually at age 8, when they reached a height of four feet and nine inches tall, can now use the grown-ups around the back seat. The correct installation of safety belts should be checked by parents. They can also opt for safety devices that prevent the child intentionally or accidentally unbuckling your seat belt .......