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Reducing child and teen traffic injuries

Over the past decade, the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies has partnered with the automotive industry, government agencies and others to create safety innovations and public education programs.

Child restraints are safer because of CChIPS research.


Child restraints are safer because of CChIPS research.
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March 30, 2018

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Each year, over 1.5 million children are involved in motor vehicle crashes and nearly 1,200 are killed. Another 170,000 experience non-fatal injuries. To reduce these numbers, the NSF-supported Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS) conducts research on child safety restraints and technologies aimed at improving teen driving. Some of this work resulted in revised child passenger safety best practice recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2011. Other research resulted in parent/caregiver education and legislative interventions that increased child restraint use from 15 percent to 63 percent between 1999 and 2007 for children, ages 4 to 8 years old.

NSF Directorate(s):
Directorate for Engineering

Locations
Pennsylvania
Ohio

Related Awards
#1650541 Phase III I/UCRC Ohio State University: Center for Child Prevention Studies (CChIPS)

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