If you have 8 to 12 Bock belt is not compulsory
Twelve years of Josh MacDonald Richardson does not remember much about car accidents, last month that his family sent him to hospital and left bruised.
“Bam, it happened,” said Josh, a living memory of his visit to the clinic. “There were many people around … and they were Rempeln a needle in me.”
Josh one thing is certain: it has survived relatively unscathed because it was just a door to the seatbelt in the back seat of the family car.
Josh and his parents, Gary MacDonald and Michelle, both 44, helped provide that the embassy in Washington a news conference Tuesday at the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Inc.
The group, funded largely by car manufacturers, published the results of studies in Dallas and Joplin, Monday, that young people find ages 8 to 12 on a greater risk that young children, death and Injury accident automatically.
The reason: young children to benefit from public education efforts and greater use of car seats. You’re sitting in the back seat, where they are protected by airbags and collision impact.
But older children have been ignored and few encouraged to wear seatbelts and stay in the back as they get older.
“We know that they are less likely restraint and more injustice and insecurity in the first meeting,” said Christene Jennings, the program director.
The study was conducted in Dallas and Joplin, so that the coalition could contrast the results of an urban population Hispanic white with a small town. At Dallas, 99 percent of participants were more than 1000 Hispanic.
Ms. Jennings said the Federal Office of Statistics show that Hispanic children are more vulnerable than their white colleagues.
Hispanic parents tend to keep their children close to the front seat because it is safe to touch, she feels.
“They seem rather bring their children in their laps,” said Jennings.
More precisely, the coalition report notes that 53 percent of older children in Dallas, she said loop Increasingly, compared to 63 per cent in Joplin. And for children Dallas, 16 percent of 8-year cruise on the front. With age, 12, 63 percent are at the front.
The coalition is a manifestation of several security groups to improve the safety of child passengers in this week as part of an annual campaign.
The events come just a week after the popstar Britney Spears was caught with his 4-month old is sitting on his son recovery during the trip.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta had a word to describe Ms. Spears’ actions “irresponsible. ”
Indeed, parental responsibility was one of the embassies of the coalition in the report
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