A sociological approach to child safety in cars in Europe

The European CASPER (Child Advanced Safety Project for European Roads) project studying car child safety includes a sociological approach in order to have a better understanding of the behaviour of parents driving children under 12 years old. A questionnaire was distributed via the internet in Europe with 998 parents (representing 1,638 children) from 22 European countries responding. The results inform on the way parents secure their children during a car trip. Many parents did not control how their children were installed in the child restraint system (CRS). A toddler was more likely to travel into a child seat than an older child was. Regarding misuse situations, an important part of the participants did not think that they could make mistakes when fixing the child seat to the car (26%) or when placing the child into the seat (39%). This leaves an important field of action especially by communication via different media and in the CRS sale outlets. (A) Paper to the session "Regulations and Consumer Aspects" of the 5th International Conference on ESAR "Expert Symposium on Accident Research", 7th to 8th September 2012 in Hannover.

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• Authors:
  • Guillaume, A
  • Langlois, A
  • Leopold, F
  • Krishnakumar, R
  • Fiorentino, A
  • Kirk, A
  • Longton, A
  • Zhekov, P
  • Lesire, P
• Publication Date: 2013-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: n.p.
• Monograph Title: 5. Internationale Konferenz ESAR „Expertensymposium Accident Research“
• Serial:
  • Berichte der Bundesanstalt fuer Strassenwesen. Unterreihe Fahrzeugtechnik
  • Issue Number: 87
  • Publisher: Fachverlag NW in der Carl Schuenemann Verlag GmbH
  • ISSN: 0943-9293

Subject/Index Terms

• ITRD Terms: 1758: Child; 8525: Conference; 8034: Europe; 8125: Germany; 9147: Interview; 1466: Passive safety system; 9084: Use; 1715: Vehicle occupant
• Subject Areas: I80: Accident Studies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01497285
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• ISBN: 978-3-95606-021-2
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Oct 31 2013 9:53AM