Vermont Governor's Highway Safety Program
Vermont Governor's Highway Safety Program
The Governor’s Highway Safety Program facilitates and supports, with federal grants, a statewide network to promote safe driving behavior on the highways. Major program areas are occupant protection (safety belts, child passenger safety and motorcycle helmets), impaired driving, speed, motorcycle, pedestrian and bicycle safety.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
http://www.nhtsa.gov
NHTSA is committed to providing the most accurate and complete information available to its customers, the American traveling public, in a helpful and courteous fashion. Parents can find child seat ratings, recall information and child seat fitting stations here.
National Safe Kids
http://www.usa.safekids.org/
Safe Kids USA is a member of Safe Kids Wolrdwide, a global network of organizations whose mission is to prevent accidental childhood injury. Click here to watch video
SafetyBeltSafe USA
http://www.carseat.org/
SafetyBeltSafeU.S.A. is the national, non-profit organization dedicated to child passenger safety. Our mission is to help reduce the number of serious and fatal traffic injuries suffered by children by promoting the correct, consistent use of safety seats and safety belts.
The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia
http://www.chop.edu/carseat
For the past decade, Partners for Child Passenger Safety (PCPS) served as the world’s largest child-focused motor vehicle crash surveillance system and an important source of data for child passenger safety. PCPS informed new product development, test protocols and regulations, education, policy, and medical practice.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Injury Center
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/childpas.htm
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began studying home and recreational injuries in the early 1970s and violence prevention in 1983. From these early activities grew a national program to reduce injury, disability, death, and costs associated with injuries outside the workplace. In June 1992, CDC established the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC).
American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/carseatsafety.cfm
Motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death for children and adolescents ages 1 to 21. The AAP has information on topics ranging from car safety seats to school buses to teen driving
SeatCheck.org
http://www.seatcheck.org/
SeatCheck is a national campaign to help parents properly secure their children in motor vehicles.
Click
here to see
the results of a statewide poll about seat safety (pdf file,
150kb)
NEWS
Car Seat Belts Do Not Increase Chance of Fetal Complications Following Accidents
ScienceDaily
May 16, 2009
It is well established that seat belts save lives. However, many pregnant women do not wear seat belts, for fear that the belt itself could injure the baby in a car crash. But is this actually the case? Does the seat belt put the baby at risk?
A group of researchers led by Dr. Stacie Zelman from Wake Forest University examined a national database of over two million injured patients, and found over 2,400 pregnant women injured in car crashes. Women wearing a seat belt, having an air bag, or both were significantly less likely to have pregnancy-related complications than women with neither a seat belt nor an air bag. The combination of a seat belt and air bag resulted in the lowest rate of complications.
The researchers conclude that pregnant women should use seat belts with confidence that they will help, not hurt, in a crash.
The presentation, entitled “Automobile Safety Restraints Do Not Increase The Chance of Fetal Complications Following Motor Vehicle Collision,” will be given by Dr. Stacie Zelman in the Injury Prevention forum at the 2009 SAEM Annual Meeting at the Sheraton New Orleans on May 16, 2009. Abstracts are published in Vol. 16, No. 4, Supplement 1, April 2009 of Academic Emergency Medicine, the official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
